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Winner of the 2009 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize,
sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies The medieval Rajput
queen Padmini - believed to have been pursued by Alauddin Khalji,
the Sultan of Delhi - has been the focus of numerous South Asian
narratives, ranging from a Sufi mystical romance in the sixteenth
century to nationalist histories in the late nineteenth century.
The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen explores how early modern regional
elites, caste groups, and mystical and monastic communities shaped
their distinctive versions of the past through the repeated
refashioning of the legend of Padmini. Ramya Sreenivasan
investigates these legends and traces their subsequent
appropriation by colonial administrators and nationalist
intellectuals, for varying different political ends. Using Padmini
as a means of illustrating the power of gender norms in
constructing heroic memory, she shows how such narratives about
virtuous women changed as they circulated across particular
communities in South Asia between the sixteenth and early twentieth
centuries. This book will interest historians of memory, gender,
community, culture, and historywriting in South Asia. Illustrating
how enduring legends emerged out of particular precolonial
repositories of "tradition," the book also addresses the nature of
colonial transitions and precolonial historical consciousness.
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