Empire Inside Out

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Empire Inside Out is written by Ilanit Loewy Shacham and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0197776221 (ISBN 10) and 9780197776223 (ISBN 13).

"Regardless of terminology, the use of padya and gadya in Telugu literary works is invariably linked to Nannaya (early to mid-11th century), traditionally considered the first poet of Telugu literature. The style that Nannaya inaugurated in his Telugu retelling of the Mahābhārata is regarded as the paradigm for later poets. His mixing of padya and gadya-an element not present in the Sanskrit Mahābhārata-became the preferred mode of poetic composition, even when translating a Sanskrit counterpart that used padya exclusively"--