THANJAVUR

tənjäˈvoor, formerly Tanjoretănjôrˈ, city (1991 pop. 202,013), Tamil Nadu state, SE India. It is a district administrative headquarters and a rice-milling center on the Kaveri River delta, known as the "rice bowl" of Tamil Nadu. Thanjavur is also a center of craftsmanship noted especially for its silks and bronzeware and is a leading S Indian music and dance center. Among the city's many Hindu temples, the most famous is the Brahadeswara temple, one of the greatest examples of Dravidian architecture, which dates to the 11th cent., when Thanjavur was capital of the Hindu Chola kingdom. The city passed under British rule in 1799.

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books on: Thanjavur  - 52 results

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The Courts of Pre-Colonial South India: Material Culture and Kingship
Book by Jennifer Howes; RoutledgeCurzon, 2003
Subjects: Architecture--India, India--Civilization--To 1200, India--History--British Occupation, 1765-1947, India--Kings And Rulers--Homes And Haunts, Material Culture--India, Temples, Hindu--India, South
...most identifiably Maratha structure at Thanjavur is the six-storeyed facade on the palaces...century or earlier. Besides the palace at Thanjavur, the Marathas were prolific builders...Thiruvidaimaruthur, about 20 kilometres east of Thanjavur. It was constructed soon after 1778...
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Christians and Missionaries in India: Cross-Cultural Communication since 1500
Book by Robert Eric Frykenberg, Alaine Low; William B. Eerdmans, 2003
Subjects: Missions--India--History
...ran or captain of the palace guard at Thanjavur. He, his brother, and fellow sol...a pastor for congregations within the Thanjavur king- dom. The most outstanding Europeans...and Father to Serfoji, the Maharaja of Thanjavur. His disciples, whom he trained and...
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Siva and Her Sisters: Gender, Caste, and Class in Rural South India
Book by Karin Kapadia; Westview Press, 1995
Subjects: Caste--India, South, Social Classes--India, South, Women--India, South--Social Conditions
...here. Gough notes that conditions in Thanjavur were even worse than the statewide statistics...2 . The decennial census figures for Thanjavur showed that in 1951, agricultural laborers...Tamilnadu. Gough describes this trend in Thanjavur in the 1970s, where the "dominant agricultural...
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A History of India
Book by Hermann Kulke, Dietmar Rothermund; Routledge, 1998
Subjects: India--History
...1002), the Rajarajeshvara Temple at Thanjavur (Tanjore) (around 1012) and the Udayeshvara...inscriptions of donors at the great Temple of Thanjavur tell us exactly from which villages the...the king who built the great Temple at Thanjavur, donated altogether the equivalent of...
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Environmentalism and the Mass Media: The North--South Divide
Book by Hermann Kulke, Dietmar Rothermund; Routledge, 1997
...around 1002 , the Rajarajeshvara Temple at Thanjavur Tanjore around 1012 and the Udayeshvara...inscriptions of donors at the great Temple of Thanjavur tell us exactly from which villages the...the king who built the great Temple at Thanjavur, donated altogether the equivalent of...
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journal articles on: Thanjavur  - 31 results

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Thanjavur Rumblings of Class Struggle in Tamil Nadu
Journal article by Mythily Shivaraman; Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, Vol. 4, 1972
Subjects: Asia
...Communists are at the root of the trouble in Thanjavur. It is in their self-interest to create...serious explanation. 15 Two features about Thanjavur stand out - its iniquitous land ownership...Agricultural Laborers : Within Tamil Nadu, Thanjavur has the highest proportion of landless...
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KaaLiyaaTTam: The Life History of a Performer and the Development of a Performing Art
Journal article by Aru. Ramanathan; Asian Folklore Studies, Vol. 59, 2000
Subjects: Art and dancing--Psychological aspects, India--Rites and ceremonies, Performing arts--Psychological aspects, Ritual--Psychological aspects
...found in the context of performances in Thanjavur and Tiruchirappalli districts. THE PRESENT...Arcot, Salem, Tiruchirappalli, and Thanjavur) the text of Mahaabaaratam is performed...performed with other festival events in Thanjavur at temples dedicated to the following...
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The Green Revolution in South India and North. Vietnam
Journal article by Kathleen Gough; Bulletin of Concerned Asian Scholars, Vol. 10, 1978
Subjects: Asia
...cheerful and optimistic than the villages of Thanjavur. I find it hard to describe the joy...processes form a striking contrast with Thanjavur. There, agricultural officers find...chemicals, a proportion much less than in Thanjavur, where costly imported chemical fertilizers...
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Arts and Crafts of Tamilnadu
Journal article by Paula Richman; The Journal of the American Oriental Society, Vol. 119, 1999
Subjects: Books--Reviews
...Tamilnadu, with a special section on Thanjavur painting. Over half the book consists...exclusively by a single community in the Thanjavur area, whose ancestors came from Andhra...selected toys, including the dolls of Thanjavur whose heads bob, the papier-mache...
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Kathleen Gough and the Indian Revolution
Journal article by Joseph Tharamangalam; Anthropologica, Vol. 35, 1993
Subjects: Colonialism, Gough, Kathleen, India, Social classes, Social conditions & trends
...field, first in Kerala and then in Thanjavur and still later from activists in America. Her field work in Kerala and Thanjavur, both strongholds of the communist...thesis has had greater validity in Thanjavur and other rice regions of south...
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The Legacy of Christian Friedrich Schwartz
Magazine article by Robert Eric Frykenberg; International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Vol. 23, July 1999
Subjects: Christianity, Evangelism, History, India, Missionaries, Personal profiles, Schwartz, Christian Friedrich (1726-98)
...Tiruchirapalli (Trichinopoly), to Thanjavur (Tanjore), and to Tirunelveli (Tinnevelly...raja-guru to Serfoji, Maharaja of Thanjavur (Tanjore). He, more than any other...of a captain in the royal guard at the Thanjavur Court. He in turn had been instrumental...
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Avarna and Adivasi Christians and Missions: a Paradigm for Understanding Christian Movements in India
Magazine article by Robert Eric Frykenberg; International Bulletin of Missionary Research, Vol. 32, January 2008
Subjects: Christianity, Christians, Color, Cultural identity, Food service, Religion, Religious conversion
...patronage for building a model school in Thanjavur. Forty years later Christian Friedrich...chapel-school. Sathiyanathan Pillai, a Thanjavur Vellalar, the first fully ordained Tamfl...pilgrimage to Chidambram. Stopping in Thanjavur to visit his cousin-sister, he accompanied...
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Location Shooting for Kcet's "cosmos"-india, Egypt, Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia, and England
Magazine article by Chris O'Dell; American Cinematographer, Vol. 61, October 1980
...worked for us. The small southern town of Thanjavur where we were to be based was well away...famous Shiva bronzes in the museum of Thanjavur we had ordered an Elemak Octopus dolly...Alexandria after a very long journey from Thanjavur, still in our tropical kit, to be met...
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Entrepreneurial Development Programmes Conducted by Public Sector Banks in Tamilnadu -success or Failure
Magazine article by M. Edwin Gnanadhas, A. Venkateswaran, R. Rathiha; Journal of Services Research, February 2008
Subjects: Banks, Entrepreneurship education, India, Performance evaluation, Studies, Training, Variance analysis
...Sivanganga, Tiruch, Villupuram, Coimbatore, Tirunelveli, Kanyakumari; Pudukottai, Virudhunagar, Cuddalore, Tuticorin, Thanjavur and Kantrepreneurial Development Programmes. This study has been pursued from the point of view of the entrepreneurs who...
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Tanjore: Mystical Painting of India
Magazine article by Cynthia A. Henn; School Arts, Vol. 103, March 2004
Subjects: Art education--Methods, Rajendran, Priya--Works
Tanjore: Mystical Painting of India. by Cynthia A. Henn Tanjore (or Thanjavur or Thanlavoor) paintings are one of the most popular traditional art forms in Southern India. These ornate religious paintings...
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newspaper articles on: Thanjavur  - 3 results

 
 
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119 Die in India, Thailand, and China Catastrophes
Newspaper article; Manila Bulletin, November 27, 2005
...in a fast-flowing river. A police spokesman at the scene of one of the accidents near the town of Pattukottai in remote Thanjavur district said at least 49 people died when a bus plunged into a canal. "Of the 49 bodies recovered there are two bodies...
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Medieval Hindu Art Goes on Show at RA
Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), November 7, 2006
...the Government Museum in Chennai. The Cholas were a Tamil dynasty that emerged in the ninth century after the capture of Thanjavur - located in the present-day state of Tamil Nadu - in 850 and ruled for the next 400 years. During their reigns, the Chola...
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Births Central DuPage Hospital Northwest Community Hospital
Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July 13, 2009
...Sibling to Jay. Grandparents: Baskaran V.K. and Mathavi Baskaran, Madurai, India; and Kannan K. and Meera Kannan, Thanjavur, India. * Trent William Skelnik, June 11, to William and Tiffany Skelnik, Palatine. Grandparents: Peter Nowak and Shandelle...


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encyclopedia articles on: Thanjavur  - 5 results

 
 
1.
Thanjavur
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
THANJAVUR t nja voor, formerly Tanjore tanjor...as the "rice bowl" of Tamil Nadu. Thanjavur is also a center of craftsmanship noted...which dates to the 11th cent., when Thanjavur was capital of the Hindu Chola kingdom...
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Indian Art and Architecture
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...paintings are from the caves at Ajanta. Little is known of Hindu wall painting except for fragments at Ellora and Tanjore (see Thanjavur ). The earliest Indian manuscript paintings are Buddhist, of the Pala dynasty; they have a delicate color. The 13th...
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Chola
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...l , S Indian dynasty, whose kingdom was in what is now Tamil Nadu . Its chief capitals were at Kanchi (Kanchipuram) and Thanjavur (Tanjore). The Chola kingdom was one of the three of ancient Tamil tradition, but the dynasty had been virtually submerged...
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India
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...Sarnath , Sanchi, and Bodh Gaya ; the cave temples at Ajanta , Ellora , and Elephanta ; and the temple sites at Madurai , Thanjavur , Abu, Bhubaneswar , Konarak, and Mahabalipuram . For other aspects of Indian culture, see Hindu music ; Indian art and...
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Tanjore
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
TANJORE India: see Thanjavur . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.


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