Minor Majesties

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Minor Majesties is written by Valérie Gillet and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0197757715 (ISBN 10) and 9780197757710 (ISBN 13).

Minor Majesties studies the small ancient kingdom of Paluvūr, active between the ninth and the eleventh centuries C.E. in the modern South-Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Author Valérie Gillet extensively surveys four temples dedicated to the god Śiva that were built during this period, combining in-depth analyses of their materiality, their location, and their epigraphy. Through these, Gillet provides a better understanding of the complexities related to temple sponsorship, organisation, and functioning as well as how these religious monuments became a place for the fabrication of political discourses and powers, specific social configurations, and religious practices.