Ilanit Loewy Shacham is Associate Professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at Tel Aviv University. Her area of expertise is in classical and pre-modern south Asian literature, with an emphasis on poetry. She has published in numerous journals including the International Journal of Hindu Studies, The Journal of Hindu Studies, and The Indian Economic and Social History Review, and is a contributor to Sensitive Readings (University of California Press, 2022). She is also working on a collaborative project on the Telugu Mahabharata by Nannaya Bhatta (ca. eleventh century) with Harshita Mruthinti Kamath (Emory University).

This book significantly contributes to the field of religious studies by inviting us to reconsider the seemingly clear-cut boundary between the political and religious domains in early modern India.

• Introduction 1. Genre and Empire: Beyond the Courtly Poem 2. Religion as Framework: Srivaisnavism Enters the Plot 3. Margins as Center: Poetics and Politics in the =Amuktam=alyada Geography 4. Expanding Literary Domains: Poetics of Fragments in the Imperial Whole 5. Conclusion: What Kind of Text is the =Amuktam=alyada, and What Is It About? Bibliography

Ilanit Loewy Shacham is Associate Professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at Tel Aviv University. Her area of expertise is in classical and pre-modern south Asian literature, with an emphasis on poetry. She has published in numerous journals including the International Journal of Hindu Studies, The Journal of Hindu Studies, and The Indian Economic and Social History Review, and is a contributor to Sensitive Readings (University of California Press, 2022). She is also working on a collaborative project on the Telugu Mahabharata by Nannaya Bhatta (ca. eleventh century) with Harshita Mruthinti Kamath (Emory University).

This book significantly contributes to the field of religious studies by inviting us to reconsider the seemingly clear-cut boundary between the political and religious domains in early modern India.

• Introduction 1. Genre and Empire: Beyond the Courtly Poem 2. Religion as Framework: Srivaisnavism Enters the Plot 3. Margins as Center: Poetics and Politics in the =Amuktam=alyada Geography 4. Expanding Literary Domains: Poetics of Fragments in the Imperial Whole 5. Conclusion: What Kind of Text is the =Amuktam=alyada, and What Is It About? Bibliography

Ilanit Loewy Shacham is Associate Professor in the Department of East Asian Studies at Tel Aviv University. Her area of expertise is in classical and pre-modern south Asian literature, with an emphasis on poetry. She has published in numerous journals including the International Journal of Hindu Studies, The Journal of Hindu Studies, and The Indian Economic and Social History Review, and is a contributor to Sensitive Readings (University of California Press, 2022). She is also working on a collaborative project on the Telugu Mahabharata by Nannaya Bhatta (ca. eleventh century) with Harshita Mruthinti Kamath (Emory University).

This book significantly contributes to the field of religious studies by inviting us to reconsider the seemingly clear-cut boundary between the political and religious domains in early modern India.

• Introduction 1. Genre and Empire: Beyond the Courtly Poem 2. Religion as Framework: Srivaisnavism Enters the Plot 3. Margins as Center: Poetics and Politics in the =Amuktam=alyada Geography 4. Expanding Literary Domains: Poetics of Fragments in the Imperial Whole 5. Conclusion: What Kind of Text is the =Amuktam=alyada, and What Is It About? Bibliography