The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen: Heroic Pasts in India, c. by Ramya Sreenivasan
By Ramya Sreenivasan
Winner of the 2009 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy e-book Prize, backed by means of the organization for Asian Studies
The medieval Rajput queen Padmini - believed to were pursued by means of Alauddin Khalji, the Sultan of Delhi - has been the focal point of diverse South Asian narratives, starting from a Sufi mystical romance within the 16th century to nationalist histories within the overdue 19th century. the numerous Lives of a Rajput Queen explores how early glossy nearby elites, caste teams, and mystical and monastic groups formed their unique models of the previous throughout the repeated refashioning of the legend of Padmini.
Ramya Sreenivasan investigates those legends and strains their next appropriation through colonial directors and nationalist intellectuals, for various diversified political ends. utilizing Padmini as a method of illustrating the ability of gender norms in developing heroic reminiscence, she indicates how such narratives approximately virtuous girls replaced as they circulated throughout specific groups in South Asia among the 16th and early 20th centuries.
This e-book will curiosity historians of reminiscence, gender, neighborhood, tradition, and historywriting in South Asia. Illustrating how enduring legends emerged out of specific precolonial repositories of "tradition," the publication additionally addresses the character of colonial transitions and precolonial historic consciousness.
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