This book investigates how the material culture of South Indian
courts was perceived by those who lived there in the pre-colonial
period. Howes peels away the standard categories used to study
Indian palace space, such as public/private and male/female, and
replaces them with indigenous descriptions of space found in court
poetry, vastu shastra and painted representations of courtly life.
Set against the historical background of the events which led to
the formation of the Ramnad Kingdom, the Kingdom's material
circumstances are examined, beginning with the innermost region of
the palace and moving out to the Kingdom via the palace compound
itself and the walled town which surrounded it. An important study
for both art historians and South India specialists. The volume is
richly illustrated in colour.
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