Taking a bronze sculpture housed by the prestigious Freer Gallery of Art of Washington, D.C., as point of departure, this paper aims to retrace historians’ (re)construction of the tenth-century Cōḻa Queen Cempiyaṉ Mahādevī’s biography in a vivid illustration of the omnipotence often allotted to epigraphical sources when it comes to dealing with material culture. Wife and mother of Cōḻa kings, Cempiyaṉ Mahādevī is unanimously hailed nowadays as one of the greatest historical figures of medieval south India, a queen who “carved a niche for herself” (Balambal 1998: 176) in History by her impressive patronage of the holy places of Tamil Śaivism. What people are less aware of, however, is that without the numerous inscriptions mentioning her nam...
International audienceThis book is an in-depth study of the royal ideology of the Pallava dynasty (S...
There is a dearth of archaeological vestiges for Hindu temples prior to the 6th century in the Tamil...
Images of kings on traditional Indian architecture has been a neglected area of study. This paper ai...
This thesis examines the historical figure of the Tamil queen Cempiyaṉ-Mahādevī, the spouse of Gaṇḍa...
Cette thèse porte sur la figure historique de la reine tamoule Cempiyaṉ-Mahādevī, épouse de Gaṇḍarād...
International audienceThis study deals with the thirteen dedicatory inscriptions engraved on the wal...
In this article, we propose a review of the historiography of a famous early medieval Indian sculptu...
This article aims to present and analyse three Cam inscriptions dating from the reign of the king Ja...
The Hegemony of Heritage makes an original and significant contribution to our understanding of how ...
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the urban landscape of the city of Jodhpur, capital of t...
How and when did the Hindu temple come to be associated with dynasties, rulers and political process...
Le règne de Jayavarman IV est traditionnellement associé au site de Koh Ker dans l’histoire du Cambo...
This work is a study of the royal ideology in Hindu India based on the case of the Pallavas (South I...
The history of the sanctuary of Po Nagar at Nha Trang is known through inscriptions dating back to t...
As from the 19th century, Khmer temples have raised a number of questions that are still of interest...
International audienceThis book is an in-depth study of the royal ideology of the Pallava dynasty (S...
There is a dearth of archaeological vestiges for Hindu temples prior to the 6th century in the Tamil...
Images of kings on traditional Indian architecture has been a neglected area of study. This paper ai...
This thesis examines the historical figure of the Tamil queen Cempiyaṉ-Mahādevī, the spouse of Gaṇḍa...
Cette thèse porte sur la figure historique de la reine tamoule Cempiyaṉ-Mahādevī, épouse de Gaṇḍarād...
International audienceThis study deals with the thirteen dedicatory inscriptions engraved on the wal...
In this article, we propose a review of the historiography of a famous early medieval Indian sculptu...
This article aims to present and analyse three Cam inscriptions dating from the reign of the king Ja...
The Hegemony of Heritage makes an original and significant contribution to our understanding of how ...
In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the urban landscape of the city of Jodhpur, capital of t...
How and when did the Hindu temple come to be associated with dynasties, rulers and political process...
Le règne de Jayavarman IV est traditionnellement associé au site de Koh Ker dans l’histoire du Cambo...
This work is a study of the royal ideology in Hindu India based on the case of the Pallavas (South I...
The history of the sanctuary of Po Nagar at Nha Trang is known through inscriptions dating back to t...
As from the 19th century, Khmer temples have raised a number of questions that are still of interest...
International audienceThis book is an in-depth study of the royal ideology of the Pallava dynasty (S...
There is a dearth of archaeological vestiges for Hindu temples prior to the 6th century in the Tamil...
Images of kings on traditional Indian architecture has been a neglected area of study. This paper ai...