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Anirudh Kanisetti, author of the acclaimed 'Lords of the Deccan', engages in a conversation with Architectural Historian, George Michell, also the co-founder of the Deccan Heritage Foundation (DHF), on the topic of the Origin and Evolution of South Indian Temple Architecture in the setting of the resplendent temple site of Badami, Karnataka. This video was shot during the DHF tour of the Deccan in January 2024.

The 14th edition of Tata Literature Live! The Mumbai LitFest is here. The Festival will start with its online edition on 25th & 26th October and will take place on ground from 27th to 29th October at the NCPA (Nariman Point), St Pauls Institute of Communication Education and Title Waves bookstore (Bandra). Tata Literature Live! 2022: Indian history writing has weighed heavily in favour of north Indian histories. Colonial history has weighed heavily in favour of the nationalist movement and ignored the role of Indian rulers. Two books seek to redress that balance: one focuses on the fascinating and constantly shifting dynamic of medieval south Indian rulers, the other explores the ways in which Indian rulers challenged the hegemony of their British masters. Both throw light on a rich tapestry of power politics that readers have rarely had a chance to glimpse. Anirudh Kanisetti’s book Lords of the Deccan has been shortlisted for the Tata Literature Live! Literary Awards 2022.

#theprintuninterrupted William Dalrymple's latest book 'The Golden Road: How Ancient India Transformed the World' is a magisterial history of Indian ideas and their spread across Eurasia. In conversation with historian Anirudh Kanisetti, Dalrymple explores centuries of this history: ancient exchanges from the Mediterranean to South India (including Greek plays about drunken merchants), the spectacular wealth and prestige of the Nalanda mega-monastery, great tantric masters like Vajrabodhi, and the reception of Indian mathematics in the Abbasid Caliphate and beyond. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Exclusive content, special privileges & more – Subscribe to ThePrint for Special benefits: https://theprint.in/subscribe/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Connect with ThePrint » Subscribe to ThePrint: https://theprint.in/subscribe/ » Subscribe to our YouTube Channel: https://bit.ly/3nCMpht » Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theprintindia » Tweet us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theprintindia » Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theprintindia » Find us on LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/company/theprint » Subscribe to ThePrint on Telegram: https://t.me/ThePrintIndia » Find us on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2NMVlnB » Find us on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3pEOta8

Nalanda, the Buddhist mega-monastery in present-day Bihar, was perhaps the single most famous centre of higher learning in all of Asia. It attracted students from Java, Tibet, China, and possibly even Mongolia and Korea. How did it rise to such eminence? As controversies rage about entrance examinations and higher studies in India today, Anirudh Kanisetti explains the lessons of the past. Sources: I-tsing, Takakasu, J. (trans.) A Record of Buddhist Religion as Practicsed in India and the Malay Archipelago (A.D. 671–695). Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1896. Krishnan, K.G. Karandai Tamil Sangam Plates of Rajendrachola I. Archaeological Survey of India, 1984. Mookerji, Radha Kumud. Ancient Indian Education (Brahminical and Buddhist). London: Macmillan and co., 1947. Sastri, KA Nilakanta. "Nālanda." Journal of the Madras University XIII (2). Reprint. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Exclusive content, special privileges & more – Subscribe to ThePrint for Special benefits: https://theprint.in/subscribe/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Connect with ThePrint » Subscribe to ThePrint: https://theprint.in/subscribe/ » Subscribe to our YouTube Channel: https://bit.ly/3nCMpht » Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theprintindia » Tweet us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theprintindia » Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theprintindia » Find us on LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/company/theprint » Subscribe to ThePrint on Telegram: https://t.me/ThePrintIndia » Find us on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2NMVlnB » Find us on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3pEOta8

Hampi/Vijayanagara, whose ruins have inspired many a tourist, photographer, and historian, was truly an Indian Renaissance State. It freely adapted elements from the collapsed Chola and Chalukya empires, creating a revolutionary new body of South Indian architecture. Anirudh Kanisetti explains. Sources: Michell, George. Architecture and Art of Southern India: Vijayanagara and the Successor States 1350-1750. Vol. 6. Cambridge University Press, 1995. Stein, Burton. The New Cambridge History of India: Vijayanagara. Cambridge University Press, 1990. Fritz, John M., and George Michell. "Space and Meaning at Vijayanagara." Concepts of Space, Ancient and Modern (Vatsyayan Ed.) (1991): 197-208. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Exclusive content, special privileges & more – Subscribe to ThePrint for Special benefits: https://theprint.in/subscribe/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Connect with ThePrint » Subscribe to ThePrint: https://theprint.in/subscribe/ » Subscribe to our YouTube Channel: https://bit.ly/3nCMpht » Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theprintindia » Tweet us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theprintindia » Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theprintindia » Find us on LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/company/theprint » Subscribe to ThePrint on Telegram: https://t.me/ThePrintIndia » Find us on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2NMVlnB » Find us on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3pEOta8

#ThinkingMedieval The spread of Buddhism was an exciting, surprising process, driven by smart religious innovations. In Andhra, it came into contact with megalith-worshipping peoples and was transformed by them. Anirudh Kanisetti explains the archaeological facts. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Watch the Thinking Medieval episode on the Mauryas here : https://youtu.be/-rrTsBb_xCk --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sources: Holt, Sree Padma, and Anthony W. Barber, eds. Buddhism in the Krishna River Valley of Andhra. State University of New York Press, 2008. Schopen, Gregory. Bones, Stones, and Buddhist Monks. University of Hawaii Press. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Join our channel to get access to perks. Click 'JOIN' or follow the link below: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuyRsHZILrU7ZDIAbGASHdA/join --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Connect with ThePrint » Subscribe to ThePrint: https://theprint.in/subscribe/ » Subscribe to our YouTube Channel: https://bit.ly/3nCMpht » Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theprintindia » Tweet us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theprintindia » Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theprintindia » Find us on LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/company/theprint » Subscribe to ThePrint on Telegram: https://t.me/ThePrintIndia » Find us on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2NMVlnB » Find us on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3pEOta8

#thinkingmedieval Over the centuries, across an enormous swathe of Asia, litterateurs, artists, and politicians have found the story of Rama, with its emotional stakes and grand ideas, infinitely adaptable and useful. Anirudh Kanisetti explains how medieval kings and poets used the Rama legend for their own purposes. Sources: Cox, Whitney. Politics, kingship, and poetry in medieval South India: moonset on sunrise mountain. Cambridge University Press, 2016. Roy, Kumkum. "The Artful Biographer: Sandhyakaranandin's Ramacharitam." In Biography As History: Indian Perspectives, edited by Vijaya Ramaswamy and Yogesh Sharma, 17–29. New Delhi: Orient Blackswan. Rao, Velcheru Narayana, and Shulman, David. Classical Telugu Poetry: An Anthology. University of California Press, 2020. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Exclusive content, special privileges & more – Subscribe to ThePrint for Special benefits: https://theprint.in/subscribe/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Connect with ThePrint » Subscribe to ThePrint: https://theprint.in/subscribe/ » Subscribe to our YouTube Channel: https://bit.ly/3nCMpht » Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theprintindia » Tweet us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/theprintindia » Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theprintindia » Find us on LinkedIn : https://www.linkedin.com/company/theprint » Subscribe to ThePrint on Telegram: https://t.me/ThePrintIndia » Find us on Spotify: https://spoti.fi/2NMVlnB » Find us on Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/3pEOta8

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CEPT Foundation Programme invites you to The Mad World of Medieval India, a talk by Anirudh Kanisetti. The Mad World of Medieval India examines a part of history that is incredibly important yet most of us know almost nothing about. Today we might see medieval Indian buildings and literature as beautiful, if somewhat irrelevant curiosities. Anirudh sees them somewhat differently. The fragments that remain of this time are tantalising hints of a medieval Indian society strangely reminiscent of our own in its plurality, dynamism, urbanism, and its connectivity to the rest of the world. Anirudh Kanisetti is a researcher and writer. He is the host of Echoes of India: A History Podcast and Yuddha: The Indian Military History Podcast, and is the author of an upcoming book on the medieval Deccan. Anirudh's work covers a variety of areas, from history to technology to geopolitics, and has been published in Mint, The Print, The Deccan Herald, The New Indian Express, and Pragati. He won the New Indian Express' 40 under 40 Award for his work as a public historian in September 2020.