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Author Sreenivasan, Ramya.

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

Publication Info. Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©2007.

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 276 pages) : maps
Physical Medium polychrome
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Note Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Jawaharlal Nehru University).
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-267) and index.
Contents Note on Transliteration and Usage ix -- 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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Reproduction Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL
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Subject Padmavati, Queen, consort of Ratana Siṃha I, Rana of Chitor, active 1303 -- In literature.
Padmavati, Queen, consort of Ratana Siṃha I, Rana of Chitor, active 1303.
Padmavati / Queen, consort of Ratana Simha I, Rana of Chitor / fl. 1303 / In literature.
India -- Historiography.
India.
Historiography.
National characteristics, East Indian, in literature.
National characteristics, East Indian, in literature.
Collective memory -- India -- History.
Collective memory.
History.
India -- Historiography.
Genre/Form History.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Sreenivasan, Ramya. Many lives of a Rajput queen. Seattle : University of Washington Press, ©2007 9780295987323 (DLC) 2007010377 (OCoLC)85833460
ISBN 9780295997858 (electronic book)
0295997850 (electronic book)
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