The first book to put the sacred and sensuous bronze statues from India's Chola dynasty in social contextFrom the ninth through the thirteenth century, the Chola dynasty of southern India produced thousands of statues of Hindu deities, whose physical perfection was meant to reflect spiritual beauty and divine transcendence. During festivals, th "A momentous scholarly achievement. . . . [A]n ambitious and grand reframing of the history of South Indian visual and cultural history."---Tamara I. Sears, The Journal of Asian Studies