Fw: H-ASIA: LEC "'Seeing You Is Equivalent to Being the King': Loyalty, Ethics, and Piety in Sixteenth Century India", Christopher Chekuri, Washington, DC, June 9, 2011 (TOMORROW)

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Subject: H-ASIA: LEC "'Seeing You Is Equivalent to Being the King': Loyalty,
Ethics, and Piety in Sixteenth Century India", Christopher Chekuri,
Washington, DC, June 9, 2011 (TOMORROW)

> H-ASIA
> June 8, 2011
>
> Lecture (TOMORROW) "'Seeing You Is Equivalent to Being the King': Loyalty,
> Ethics, and Piety in Sixteenth Century India", Christopher Chekuri,
> Washington, DC., June 9, 2011, Library of Congress
>
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> "'Seeing You Is Equivalent to Being the King': Loyalty, Ethics, and Piety
> in Sixteenth Century India"
>
> Location: District of Columbia, United States
> Lecture Date: 2011-06-09 (tomorrow!)
> Date Submitted: 2011-06-02
> Announcement ID: 185655
>
> 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
>
>
> Yvonne French
> Kluge Center
> Library of Congress
> 101 Independence Ave., S.E.
> Washington, DC 20540-4860
> (202) 707-7678
> Email: yfre@loc.gov
>
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