Breaking the Crown of Indra

The Pandyas and Their Dynastic Identity in the South Indian Context
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-72072-5
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers

Buch, Englisch, Band 61, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Brill's Indological Library

From the first years of our era up to the 18th century, in between wars, conquests, defeats and stellar political risings: Breaking the Crown of Indra takes you through a long and engaging quest to answer the apparently simple question “Who were the Pandyas?”
With the help of epigraphic evidence, literary texts, and temple chronicles never translated before, David Pierdominici Leão reconstructs the evolution of the Pandya royal perception through the different periods of this Tamil kingdom. His study investigates the so-called phenomenon of the “Pandyaness”, a concept enriched by different dynastic identities, mythical narratives of deeds and divinised sovereigns.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pierdominici Leão, David

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Asiatische Geschichte

Über Autor(innen)

David Pierdominici Leão, Ph.D. (2018), Sapienza University in Rome, is a Researcher in the Department of Languages and Cultures of India and South Asia at the Jagiellonian University. He is the author of several articles on Indian literature and history.