Lords of the Southern Deccan: India from Chalukyas to Cholas | William Dalrymple | Anirudh Kanisetti

Lords of the Southern Deccan: India from Chalukyas to Cholas
Discussion with William Dalrymple and Anirudh Kanisetti at KLF 2023
William Dalrymple: William Dalrymple, the author of The Anarchy is a Scottish historian and writer, art historian and curator, as well as an award-winning broadcaster and critic. His books have won numerous awards and prizes, including the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize, the Hemingway, the Kapuscinski and the Wolfson Prizes. He has been five times longlisted and once shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction. The television series Stones of the Raj and Indian Journeys, which Dalrymple wrote and presented, won him the Grierson Award for Best Documentary Series at BAFTA in 2002.
Anirudh Kanisetti: Anirudh Kanisetti is the author of Lords of the Deccan, a new history of medieval South India. He is currently Editor at the Museum of Art and Photography. He has received grants from the Princeton Center for Digital Humanities and the India Foundation for the Arts, and his writings and work have been featured in The Hindu, The New Indian Express, and LiveMint, among others. He writes the fortnightly Thinking Medieval column for ThePrint, and the History, Southside column for The Hindustan Times. He hosts two critically acclaimed podcasts- Echoes of India and Yuddha.
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[@ak-ev1mp]

Chaluka pride of Karnataka

[@premkolkar6861]

Thanks for publishing this book 🙏

[@prabhatam123]

Awesome 😊

[@anthonypk7281]

Golti power! Yey!!!

[@bino3499]

So proud of our Kannada Kings 🫡. Being a telugite I salute them. It’s high time for us to learn the actual history.

[@manivignesh.k6526]

Is that Mrs. Sudha Murthy asking question at 45th minute?

[@anugnad]

Knowledge, teaching materials
In Sanskrit

[@karthikeyans4658]

What do you have to say about the sangam literature which is researched even today like thirukural, silapathikaaram, seevakasinthaamani in 3rd century BC.

[@jai7185]

Kannada the first court, administrative official local vernacular language of India. Also having its own script at earliest in vernacular indian language.

[@vasanthchandrasekaran3218]

It should have been lords of Kannada, not sure why its called Deccan.

[@manivignesh.k6526]

While there is probably no incription from sangam era (3rd century BCE to 3rd century CE) south india discussing what was the court language, do we understand that they used local language as there were less influence of sanskrit at that time. Or does he talk about Rashtrakutas as a larg empire in the post arrival of sanskrit era that went back to Kannada as administrative language?

[@pavankumarhk7074]

He was referring to the literary works that happened with the support of the king. Until then, local languages were used for administrative purposes while much of the literary works were in Sanskrit. Kadamba (3rd to 6th CE) were using kannada as an administrative language but there are no significant literary work from this period. In Tamil as well, much of the literary works exploded during the late pallava period and the early Tanjavur Chola period. Not much is known from Kalabhra period (contemporaries of Kadamba who ruled a significant part of Tamilnadu post early Cholas).

[@rkannan0emc]

@@pavankumarhk7074 better you should be a historian to talk about Tamil's history. Anirudh completed Bachelor of Engineering and started to write history. He doesn't even know ABCD of history. I think you are referring to Bhathi literatures (which is medieval period). But the Samgam literatures are composed between 3rd BCE to 3rd CE. In Samgam literature (3nd century BCE) there is no Pallava kingdoms or any Karnataka/Telungu kindoms are mentioned

[@anugnad]

Holy Force

[@vasanthchandrasekaran3218]

What is he talking about? Tamil has been court language all through Sangam era from 3rd century BC.

[@ॐSrimanArcharyaJBC]

Chalukya = Bhagwan Chanakya CHITRODA Empire Cholla was one of the businesses and Bahmani was the Indian Hindu Moghul Army INA.
⚡️🤴🏽🕉🔺➕

[@alani3992]

There is no evidence of Bharat as a term before 400 BC.
It was given by the Bharatha kingdom, part of Arya-Vartha in North India, then spread South.

[@dr.renukrajmedegarpp7603]

Arya varth is full of buddism from BC to 7th ce, continuous invade on North India by south indian kings like chaalukya and Raashtrakutaa kings, displaced budhism to Hiduism, and temple building started instead of budha caves. And Aryan culture like Vedas we don't have temples that time of Hinduism. Still today we see more ancient temple in south.

[@mahavishnu454]

This guy is not a historian rather he is a joker. He just says poetry starts appearing in vernacular languages only after Amoghavarsha started it for Kannada. Tamil poetry started in the court of Pandya kings a good thousand years before that. For this guy, history started only during medieval era

[@raghuls1515]

Exactly ... kannada language origin is in medival age ...but tamil is oldest thats why it is mother of all languages

[@jai7185]

Kannada language splits & became independent much before the tamil as a spoken language, so kannada is ancient language.

[@tharun541]

​​@@jai7185 Dude we have archaeological evidences from Keeladi, Adichanallur, Kodunal to say Tamil language existed minimum 2500 years ago. Kannada is also an ancient language which I agree but let me know how much years it is old based on archaeological evidences, not based on pride

[@Saks6951]

​@@raghuls1515That's a false pride u guys still struck in. Thats why we call Tamil as Arava

[@vnyable]

​@tharun541 bro halmidi inscription it's the oldest found kannada inscription its 2500 years old you can check for it

[@Saks6951]

All Tamil praise about old language is fake. Telugu is the best of all

[@Stardust_CE94]

completely biased