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Library of Congress Kluge Fellow Christopher Chekuri will look through a literary window into the politics and culture of pre-colonial South India to examine loyalty and piety in the making of an ethical kingship during the seventeenth century. His lecture will explore vernacular concepts of Hindu kingship through a close reading of the Telugu-language text _Tanjavuri Andhra Rajula Caritra_, which recounts the life histories of courtly figures of the sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Vijayanagara Empire. Chekuri will reveal the culture of the Nayaka elite and their state-making practices, and describe ways of reading texts and inscriptions in the study of empire and sovereignty in medieval India.
Thursday, June 9
12:00 noon
Room LJ-119
Library of Congress
Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First Street, S.E., Washington, D.C., 20540
Free and open to the public; no tickets are needed. Information: 202-707-3302, scholarly@loc.gov
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