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Art of the Vijayanagara-Nayakas: Architecture and Iconography (In 2 Volumes)

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The doctoral thesis by R.K. Kesava Rajarajan is a very serious effort to put some order in the great deal of monuments belonging to a period, which is too often underestimated by the scholars. The work contains both a survey of the temples and an analysis of iconographical themes. The painstaking examination of original sources is perhaps the most important contribution by Rajarajan, but also the chapter "Painstaking examination of original sources is perhaps the most important of the changing European taste in the evaluation of Indian art the material collected is impressive, the references to the literary tradition are vast and exhaustive, the iconographical interpretations are well-grounded and rich in detail. it is my opinion tradition are vast and exhaustive, the iconographical interpretations are well-grounded and rich in detail it is my opinion that, once it is published, it will remain for a long time a fundamental reference book for Nayaka architecture and iconography.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR R K K Rajarajan

Born in 1973, Dr. R.K.K. Rajarajan had his schooling and university education at Madurai and Thanjavur. He did his M. Phil and Ph.D. under the inspiration of his father, Prof. Raju Kalidos. Since a college student, his father trained him in Hindu iconography. The thesis was unanimously â€œHighly Commendedâ€ by a board of experts, including Prof. Maurizio TADDEI. Taking the doctoral degree in 1989, he was conferred the prestigious Alexander von Humboldt post-doctoral fellowship and left for Germany in the same year. He worked for nearly three years in the Institut fur Indische Philologie und Kunstgeschichte, at the Freie Universitat Berlin, Berlin. He has attended several national seminars and an international conference at the University of Hong Kong. He has published a number of articles in international journals from Oxford, Rome, Naples and Berlin. Several more articles stand to his credit at home. Dr. Rajarajan has visited Hong Kong, several places in Germany, England (London) and Italy (Rome). Presently he is teaching history at the Eritrean Institute of Technology, Asmara, Eritrea.