audiobook Scandal of Colonial Rule: Power and Subversion in the British Atlantic during the Age of Revolution (Critical Perspectives on Empire) by James Epstein in History

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George Michell considers the artistic heritage of the architecture; sculpture and painting of the Vijayanagara empire and the successor states. The period; encompassing some four hundred years; was endowed with an abundance of religious and royal monuments; which remain as testimonies to the history and ideology behind their evolution. In a previously neglected area of art history; the author presents an original and much needed reassessment; evaluating buildings; sculptures and paintings; illustrated by many previously unpublished photographs.