An interesting book about medieval Andhra

I have read only a few history books and do not know where Precolonial India in Practice: Society, Region, and Identity in Medieval Andhra by Cynthia Talbot stands but I found it engrossing.
She chose Andhra region since she felt that its historic experience is more representative of the historic experience of the subcontinent as a whole compared to the well studied core regions like Gangetic pains and Kaveri detlta (page 10) and the medieval period (in this case 1000-1650 and more often the Kakatiya period 1175-1325) because this period corresponds to the era during which the geographic contours of the modern linguistic region was established (page 4). The 1995 article Emergence of Regional Identity and Vernacular Literature: a Case Study in Telugu by S. Nagaraju seems reated. Off and on, I was aso reminded of Peter Turchin's book "War, Peace and War".