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In Favour of Govinddevji - Historical Documents Relating to a Deity of Vrindaban & Eastern Rajasthan (Hardcover, UK ed.)
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In Favour of Govinddevji - Historical Documents Relating to a Deity of Vrindaban & Eastern Rajasthan (Hardcover, UK ed.)
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In collaboration with Heike Bill Published in association with
Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts. Sri Govinddevji, a
family deity of Ambers Kachavaha dynasty, now dwells in Jaipur,
along with his consort Radha. His first appearance, however, he
made in Vrindaban where he came to reside in the great temple built
for him by Raja Mansingh and consecrated in 1590. Govinddevji was a
symbol of Mansinghs power and became a focus of political
interaction of the Mughal Emperor and the Kachavahas and, hence, an
object of imperial and royal patronage. In the end of the
seventeenth century, Govinddevji and Radha, accompanied by
Vrindabans tutelary goddess, Vrndadevi, were taken to the Amber
territory to protect them from damage by the hands of iconoclasts.
This was in the latter part of Emperor Aurangzebs rule when, with
the crisis of the Empire, regional Hindu kingdoms became
increasingly self-assertive. Thus, that move from Vrindaban to
Amber, the patrimonial land of the Kachavahas, also marked the,
Kachavaha rulers assertion of regional power and identity.
Govinddevji and his consort eventually came to reside in the
palatial temple in the precincts of the City Palace of Maharaja
Savai Jaisinghs new capital, Jaipur. The rise of the deity to the
status of a symbol of regional power also meant the rise of Gaudiya
Vaishnavism and the deitys custodians to power in the Kachavaha
territory. The documents published in this book span more than
three and a half centuries. In their own style which is that of
fiscal and other official papers, they tell of the fortunes of
Govinddevji. Apart from their importance as testimonies of
religious policy, they also permit insight into the administrative
and diplomatic usage of the Kachavaha chancery, an aspect which the
author has attempted to highlight.
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