Many lives of a Rajput queen : heroic pasts in India c. 1500-1900 / Ramya Sreenivasan.

By:

Sreenivasan, Ramya

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Ranikhet : Permanent Black, c2007.Description: viii, 276 p. : maps ; 24 cmISBN:

9788178241852 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780295987606 (pbk. : alk. paper)

Other title:

The many lives of a Rajput queen

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DDC classification:

954.0234072 SRE 22

Online resources:

Table of contents only

Contents:

Note on Transliteration and Usage ix -- 1.Introduction 2 Sufi Tale of Rajputs in Sixteenth-century Avadh 22 -- 3 Rajput Kings and their Pasts in the Mughal Period 65 -- 4 Tales of Past Glory under Early Colonial Indirect Rule (c. 1750-1850) 117 -- 5 Exemplary Patriotism in the Late Nineteenth Century 157 -- 7 Appendix 1: Summaries of Selected Versions of the Legend 207 -- 8 Appendix 2: List of Known Versions/Manuscripts/Editions of the Padmini Legend 228.

Summary: Sreenivasan explores how early modern regional elites, caste groups and mythical, and monastic communities shaped their distinctive versions of the past through the repeated refashioning of the legend of Padmini.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Books	H.T. Parekh Library	SIAS Collection	Meenakshi Mukherjee Books	954.0234072 SRE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		K4625

Gratis.
Rs.650/-
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Jawaharlal Nehru University).

Includes bibliographical references (p. [235]-267) and index.

Note on Transliteration and Usage ix --
1.Introduction
2 Sufi Tale of Rajputs in Sixteenth-century Avadh 22 --
3 Rajput Kings and their Pasts in the Mughal Period 65 --
4 Tales of Past Glory under Early Colonial Indirect Rule (c. 1750-1850) 117 --
5 Exemplary Patriotism in the Late Nineteenth Century 157 --
7 Appendix 1: Summaries of Selected Versions of the Legend 207 --
8 Appendix 2: List of Known Versions/Manuscripts/Editions of the Padmini Legend 228.

Sreenivasan explores how early modern regional elites, caste groups and mythical, and monastic communities shaped their distinctive versions of the past through the repeated refashioning of the legend of Padmini.

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