Online Thesis Search Results

TITLE
DECLARATION
CERTIFICATE
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
CONTENTS
LIST OF TABLES
LIST OF APPENDICES
1. INTRODUCTION
The Enabling Evidences
What is There in Writing
The Vantage Points
2. THE LOCALE
The River Network
Early Settlements
On the locale
The Port of Nakkida
The Coming of the Monocrop - Paddy
Early Religious Settlements and Cult Sites
Locatedness of the Ūŗ and Nāţu�
Of Grāmam and Upagrāmam�
Heterogeneity in Locatedness
3. LOCAL POLITICAL ENTITIES IN INSCRIPTIONAL OVERTURES
Table 1. Details of Nadu-s and their chiefs
Nāţu-s and Nāţuvālis Around Tiruvallavāļ�
Table. No.2 Details of Muňňanāţu�
Table 3 Details of Venpolināţu�
Table 4 Details of Nanrulainatu
Centre’-‘Division’ and Inter-Naţu Relations�
The Sabha, Kaņam-s and Other Temple Functionaries�
Kōyiladhikāri, Naţuţaiyavaŗ (nāţuvāli), and Vālkaivāli�
Relations of Power
Notions of Hierarchy and Claims on Āţţaikōl and Arantai�
Table 5. Details on the share of fine
4. THE TIRUVARRUVAI INSCRIPTIONS
The Vazhappalli Copperplate
The Agents and Rituals
Kaccam in Political Practice
Mechanism of Control
The Copperplate Document of Mecheri Illam
The Stone Inscription of Tiruvāŗŗuvāi�
Explaining the Nature of Political Controls
Benefactors
Proliferation of Rituals and Extension of Control
5. ACCRETION OF TEMPLE’S CENTRALITY: SEARCHING THE TIRUVALLA COPPERPLATES
The Temple of the Locale
The Tiruvalla Copperplates
Centrifugality of the Temple
Modes of Centrifugality
The Temple: A Managed Object
6. POETIC CELEBRATION OF THE TEMPLE: CENTRIFUGALITY
Pivotalisation of the Temple in Devotional Poetry
Temple, God and the Landscape in the Decads of Nammāļvār�
Temple, Lord Vişņu and Landscape in the Decads of Tirumangai Āļvār�
Temple as Core of the Sacralised Geography
Normalisation of Bhakti
Eulogisation of Sri Vallabha
7. SELF-REFLEXIVE DIS-ENTANGLING OF CENTRALISM AND LOCALNESS
APPENDICES
Diagram 1
Diagram 2
Map 1.
Map 2
Map 3