Spiritual Journey, Imperial City: Pilgrimage to the Temples of Vijayanagara
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
8179360040
Length
xiii+227p., Figures; Tables; Plates; Maps; References; Appendix; Index.
Subjects
Pilgrimage is deeply rooted in human spirituality and charged with emotional and symbolic meanings, yet its economic, social, and political consequences have been little studied. In this book Alexandra Mack explores these themes with an archaeological perspective focused on Vijayanagara. The city, which served as the capital of an empire that dominated South India from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries, had ritual connections for centuries before the city ...
