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SUMMARY:CITY OF VICTORY: HAMPI VIJAYANAGARA Illustrated Talk by Dr George Michell
DESCRIPTION:About the Talk\nVijayanagara Hampi was capital of the greatest Hindu kingdom of Southern India between the 14th and 16th centuries. Contemporary Persian and Portuguese travellers testify to the power of its emperors and the splendour of their court\, the grand scale of the city and its imposing buildings\, and the wealth of its markets where diamonds could be purchased. To this day\, the remains of Vijayanagara in central Karnataka give the best possible idea of the magnificence of this great capital. Covering an area of more than 30 square kilometres\, the ruins are set in an astonishingly rugged landscape of granite boulders through which flows the sacred Tungabhadra River. \n            In 1986\, Hampi was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO\, which included it on its list of antiquities of global significance. The city’s extraordinary religious and courtly ruins that include more than a thousand structures\, continue to draw pilgrims\, artists\, scholars and visitors from around the world. In his illustrated talk\, Michell will give the historical background to Vijayanagara as well as discussing the principal monuments with their vivid sculptural decoration.  \n  \nAbout the Speaker\nThe London based\, architectural historian Dr George Michell trained as an architect in Melbourne and then continued with a doctoral thesis on the Badami Chalukya temples for the School of Oriental African Studies at the University of London. Beginning in 1980\, Michell spent over 20 years mapping Hampi in collaboration with the American archaeologist John M. Fritz. Together they have authored City of Victory (Mumbai 2026)\, illustrated with splendid images by the Australian photographer John Gollings.
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SUMMARY:Indians in the Ocean: Promises of Slaves and Pirates\, 1000-1500 CE 
DESCRIPTION:Part of the Maritime Asia lecture series. \nAbout the Talk\nThe idea that the Indian Ocean was a peaceful place before Europeans arrived with cannon-bearing ships and combined trade with warfare from the sixteenth century onward has been challenged in recent scholarship. From Gujarat to Coromandel and Bengal to Malabar\, local communities participated in\, benefited from\, and were also subjected to a broader economy of violence\, with or without state support. The forms of this violence varied\, but enslavement and piracy were among its most significant means of profit-making. Yet we know very little about Indians who were taken as slaves across the seas or worked as pirates between the eleventh and fifteenth centuries. This talk explores the violent worlds of maritime slavery and piracy\, complicating conventional understandings of both phenomena in the Indian Ocean and the Indian subcontinent. It builds on my recent book\, Indians in the Ocean: Cultures of Trade and Travel (New Delhi: Penguin Random House\, 2026; Leiden: Leiden University Press\, forthcoming). \nAbout the Speaker\nMahmood Kooria is a historian of the Indian Ocean world\, currently teaching at the School of History\, Classics and Archaeology\, University of Edinburgh\, and director of the Edinburgh Centre for Global History. He earned his PhD in global history at the Leiden University Institute for History in 2016\, authored Islamic Law in Circulation: Shafiʿi Texts Across the Indian Ocean and the Mediterranean (Cambridge\, 2022)\, and co-edited Malabar in the Indian Ocean World: Cosmopolitanism in a Maritime Historical Region (Oxford\, 2018). In 2024\, he won the Infosys Prize in Humanities and Social Sciences for his contributions to the studies of Islam and Malabar in the Indian Ocean world. \n  \nFree and open to all
URL:https://royalasiaticsociety.org/lectures-event/indians-in-the-ocean-promises-of-slaves-and-pirates-1000-1500-ce/
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