Kings and cults : state formation and legitimation in India and Southeast Asia
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Kings and cults : state formation and legitimation in India and Southeast Asia
（Perspectives in history, v. 7）
Manohar Publishers & Distributors, 2001, c1993
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Kings and Cults contains a selection of articles of H Kulke on various aspects of Ksatra and Ksetra, the interconnected domains of temporal and sacred power in medieval India and South-east Asia. Thematically these papers are intertwined by a study of the quest of medieval rulers for legitimation through religious institutions. Of particular interest in this regard are the changing modes of legitimation of different stages of state formation, ranging from princely patronage of tribal deities by early emerging kings to the construction of imperial temples by the rulers of great regional imperial kingdoms. A particularly characteristic feature of India is the great temple cities as centres of regional cults and pilgrimage which became the major focus of later medieval royal patronage. Another important aspect of Kulkes work is historiography as a means of late medieval royal legitimation, linking legendary history of these sacred places and royal patronage with dynastic claims.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Royal Temple Policy & the Structure of Medieval Hindu Kingdoms
- King Anangabhima III, the Veritable founder of the Gajapati Kingship & of the Jagannatha Trinity at Puri
- Jagannath under Muslim Rule
- Ksetra & Ksatra: The Cult of Jagannatha of Puri & the Royal Letters (chamu citaus) the Rajas of Khurda
- Rathas & Rajas: The Car Festival at Puri
- Ksatriyaization & Social Change: A Study in the Orissa Setting
- Legitimation & Townplanning in the Feudatory States of Central Orissa
- Tribal Deities at Princely Courts: The Feudatory Rajas of Central Orissa & their Tutelary Deities (istadevatas)
- The Chronicles & the Temple Records of the Madala Panji of Puri: A Reassessment of the Evidence
- Reflections on the Sources of the Temple Chronicles of the Madala Panji of Puri
- Functional Interpretation of a South Indian Mahatmya: The Legend of Hiranyavarman & the Life of the Cola King Kulottunga I
- Maharajas, Mahants & Historians: Reflections on the Historiography of Early Vijayanagara & Sringeri
- Max Webers Contribution to the Study of 'Hinduization' in India & 'Indianization' in Southeast Asia
- The Early & the Imperial Kingdom in Southeast Asian History
- Epigraphical References to the City & the State in Early Indonesia
- The Devaraja Cult: Legitimation & Apotheosis of the Ruler in the Kingdom of Angkor
- Index.
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