The Dynasty that Transformed Southern India

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🗓️ 26 April 2022

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Histories of India usually concern themselves with events and invasions in the subcontinent’s North, while the rest of India’s rich story is often reduced down to little more than dry footnotes.

Now historian and Indian history podcast presenter Anirudh Kanisetti has brought to light the early medieval period in the Deccan Plateau - between the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal - when the region was transformed by the Chalukya dynasty, shaping life in southern India for centuries.

In this edition of Gone Medieval, Dr. Cat Jarman is at the Jaipur Literature Festival where she meets Anirudh Kanisetti to find out why his work means the history of the subcontinent will never be seen in the same way again.

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0:35.3	Hello and welcome to Gone Medieval. I'm Dr. Kat German. In this episode, I am in India. Today,
0:42.0	I'm at the Jyapur literature festival and I've managed to find myself an Indian Medievalist,
0:48.8	so today's episode is all going to be about southern India in the medieval period because
0:55.2	this period has actually been quite largely neglected here in India and certainly
0:59.3	overseas in northern Europe. When people learn about Indian history, it tends to be focused on
1:05.2	northern India, but today's guest is called Anna Ruud Kanissetti. He's a history researcher and
1:11.2	writer based out of Bangalore and Hyderabad. He currently works at the Museum of Art and Photography
1:18.2	and he has written a new book called The Lords of the Deccan. So we are still at the festival,
1:23.3	so we've sneaked away into a little corner so you can hear some birds and some music and some
1:26.9	background noise, but that will just sort of give you the atmosphere as if you were here. But,
1:30.8	Anna Ruud, thank you so much for joining me here today. It's my pleasure. Thanks for having me.
1:34.5	So, I listened to you talk earlier this morning and one thing you said was that this period is
1:38.8	really even here in India. People aren't really focusing on this medieval period and certainly
1:44.0	not this part of India. Is that right? Yes, I feel like in India, we tend to focus to a great extent
1:49.6	on northern India. I feel like even in the West, there is some awareness now of Indian history,
1:54.6	people out of the Mughals, people may have heard of the Delhi Sultanate. They've definitely heard
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