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Hindu arms and ritual: arms and armour from India, 1400-1865
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9059720202
Author
Elgood, Robert
Title
Hindu arms and ritual : arms and armour from India, 1400-1865 / Robert Elgood
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Delft : Eburon, 2004
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312 p. ; ill. (mostly col.), 1 col. map ; 31 cm.
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CBL illustrations: p. 205, 207-16 (In 02).
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Includes a partial translation of In 02 (p. 205-216).
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents
Introduction to the objects, sources and research into Hindu arms history -- The Ankusa -- The decline and fall of the Tanjore Armoury -- Warfare in the Vijayanagara State and its successors from the thirteenth to the eighteenth centuries -- Hindu armour in South India -- Sacrifice, the goddess and weapons -- A twelfth-century Chola bronze temple sword -- Swords in the Vijayanagara and Nayaka periods -- Ritual kingship, power and weapons in South India -- Dharma and Dasara in relation to Vijayanagara -- Royal Vijayanagara swords and daggers from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries -- Four important sixteenth or early seventeenth-century South Indian swords -- The iconography of the pieces -- Weapon design and the powers of good and evil -- Sixteenth-century katars from Srirangam -- Daggers in the Vijayanagara and Nayaka periods -- Indian arms' exercises and exhibitions of prowess -- Axes and maces -- Bows, boomerangs and spears -- The metal-working tradition in southern India -- Appendix I: Annotated translation of Chapter 7 of the Nujum al-'Ulum (The stars of the sciences). Bijapur, 1570 -- Appendix II: Inventory of the arms and armour in the Tanjore Armoury, May 1860 -- Appendix III: Chronology of rulers -- Appendix IV: Dating the buildings, portrait sculpture and murals cited in the text.
Subject
Chester Beatty Library -- Manuscript -- In 02
Armour -- India
Weapons -- India
Metal-work -- India
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