Here is the list of journals/books by Dr.George W. Spencer, Department Chair in Northern Illinois University. He is an Alumni of our Univ.
papers and from the cross references (proving that i am a research student??!!), we must be able to get hell a lot of info about Chola history. I've got few papers with me ( hard copy). There are few papers in India which i cannot get. So, i'll try to scan all the papers and load it in files section. Similarly, if u guys can load the papers that are available in india, it would be great...Or as Krupa said to me, i can send it thru Yagna, who is coming to india sometime soon. Yagna, can u email me your mailing address .....
Here is the list ...
Books:
The Politics of Expansion: The Chola Conquest of Sri Lanka and Sri Vijaya. Madras: New Era Publications, 1983.
Edited Works:
Temples, Kings and Peasants: Perceptions of South India's Past. Madras: New Era Publications, 1987
Articles:
"Temple Money Lending and Livestock Redistribution in Early Tanjore," Indian Economic and Social History Review; 5, No. 3 (September 1968), 277-93.
"Religious Networks and Royal Influence in Eleventh Century South India," Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient; 12, Pt. I (1969), 42-56.
"Royal Initiative Under Rajaraja I: The Auditing of Temple Accounts," Indian Economic and Social History Review; 7, No. 4 (December 1970), 232-244.
"The Sacred Geography of the Tamil Shaivite Hymns," Numen; International Review for the History of Religions; 17, No. 3 (December 1970), 232-44.
"Toward an Analysis of Dynastic Hinterlands: The Imperial Cholas of Eleventh Century South India," with K. R. Hall, Asian Profile; 2, No. 1 (February 1974), 51-62.
"The Politics of Plunder: The Cholas in Eleventh Century Ceylon," Journal of Asian Studies; 35, No. 3 (May 1976), 405-19.
"Crisis of Authority in a Hindu Temple Under the Impact of Islm: rrangam in the Fourteenth Century," in Bardwell L. Smith, ed. Religion and the Legitimation of Power in South Asia; International Studies in Sociology and Social Anthropology, Vol. 15. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1978, pp. 14-27.
"The Economy of Kñcpuram: A Sacred Center in Early South India," with K. R. Hall, Journal of Urban History; 6, No. 2 (February 1980), 127- 51.
"Sons of the Sun: The Solar Genealogy of a Chola King," Asian Profile; 10, No. 1 (February 1982), 81-95.
"Ties that Bound: Royal Marriage Alliance in the Chola Period," Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Asian Studies. Hong Kong: Asian Research Service, 1982, pp. 717-36.
"When Queens Bore Gifts: Women as Temple Donors in the Chola Period," in K. V. Raman et al., eds. rnidhih: Perspectives in Indian Archaeology, Arts and Culture. Shri K. R. Srinivasan Festschrift. Madras: New Era Publications, 1983, pp. 361-74.
"Heirs Apparent: Fiction and Function in Chola Mythical Genealogies," Indian Economic and Social History Review; 21, No. 4 (December 1984), pp. 415-32.
"Instant Ancestors: Assumed Royal Identities of the Pallava-Chola Period in South India," Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium on Asian Studies, 1985. Hong Kong: Asian Research Service, 1985, pp. 467-75.
"Indian Trade Diasporas and Chola Maritime Expansion," Journal of the Institute of Asian Studies, 6, No. 1 (Sept. 1988), 1-13.
"Trade, Prestige and the State in Medieval South India: Some Characteristics," Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Symposium on Asian Studies, 1991. Hong Kong: Asian Research Service, 1992, pp. 447-57.
"Snapshots of South Indian Studies in the United States," IATR Newsletter. International Association of Tamil Research, No. 2 (January 1997), 4-8.
"In Search of Change: Reflections on the Scholarship of Noboru Karashima," in Kenneth R. Hall, ed., Structure and Change in Early South India: Essays in Honor of Professor Noboru Karashima. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2001, 28-43.
Papers Presented at Professional Conferences:
"When Queens Bore Gifts: Women as Temple Donors in the Ca Period," Association for Asian Studies annual meeting, Toronto, March 1981.
"In Search of Change: Reflections on the Scholarship of Noboru Karashima," Association for Asian Studies annual meeting, Honolulu, March 1996.