Sangama English 2006

Sangama: A Confluence of Art and Culture During the Vijayanagara Period explores the complex interaction among multiple social and cultural forces between the fourteenth and the seventeenth centuries are on Vijayanagara in particular using archaeological, architectural, inscriptional and textural sources aand those which are borader in nature that suggest a complex interweaving of influences. This publication has been brought out in conjenction with the seminar Sangama: A Vijayanagara Period, to be held in Houston and Los Angeles in Novemeber 2005. About Author : Dr. Nalini Rao, Professor of World Art in Soka University of America, Ca., U.S.A. Archaeology from University of Mysore (1981) and a Ph.D. in Art History from University of California Los Angeles (1991). She is the author of Boundaries and Transformations (1997) and joint author of Contours of Modernity (2005). Her forthcoming book in Royal Artistic Imagery at Vijayanagara.