South India under Vijayanagara : art and archaeology

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS SECTION I: HAMPI-VIJAYANAGARA 1. Vijayanagara Research: A Template for Interdisciplinary Scholarship on India by Carla Sinopoli 2. An Overview of Twenty-five Years of Archaeological Work at Hampi by M.S. Nagaraja Rao 3. The Hampi Archaeological Atlas Project by John M. Fritz 4. The Capital in Context: The Vijayanagara Metropolitan Survey by Kathleen D. Morrison 5. Scholarship and Discourse in Responsible Heritage Site Management, Case: Hampi by Nalini Thakur 6. Hampi World Heritage Area Management Authority and the Implementation of the Integrated Management Plan for Hampi: Processes at the Ground Level by B. Sarath Chandra 7. Public-Private Partnership in Conservation Projects at Hampi by Abha Narain Lambah 8. The Earliest Photographs of Hampi: Lessons to be Learned by George Michell 9. Inscriptions Related to Monuments at Vijayanagara by S. Rajasekhara 10. Sculptures on the Great Platform at Vijayanagara by Anna L. Dallapiccola 11. Retrieving the Chalukyan Past at Sixteenth Century Vijayanagara: The Stepped Tank in the Royal Centre by Phillip B. Wagoner 12. The Sacred Topography of Hampi-Vijayanagara by Anila Verghese SECTION II: VIJAYANAGARA CITY AND EMPIRE 13. Power Relationships as Seen through Vijayanagara Era Temple Inscriptions by Alexandra Mack 15. Ramayana in Southern Indian Art: Themes and Variations by Anna L. Dallapiccola 16. The Chaturmukha Temples of Kanara: Architectural Assertions of Autonomy by John Henry Rice 19. Important Associations of Shaivite Ascetic Iconography between Srisailam, Hampi-Vijayanagara and Sringeri by Richard Shaw 20. In a Land of Kings: Donors, Elites and Temple Sculpture by Crispin Branfoot 21. Gandabherunda Images on Textiles and Monuments of South India by Brigitte Khan Majlis 22. Notes on Vijayanagara Painting by Anna L. Dallapiccola 23. Propaganda and Power: The Coinage of Vijayanagara Considered in Context by Barbara Mears