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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.
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.
The two volumes of James Tod’s Annals and Antiquities of
Rajast’han, first published in 1829–32, remain to this day the
first port of call for anyone interested in the history and culture
of Rajasthan and the early colonial encounter in India. Written by
the first East India Company official to the region, the text was
also seminal for the early figures in India’s independence
movement who reworked Tod’s imagined ancient Rajput national
identities into a call for India’s national liberation from
British colonial rule. Â Now available in a numbered limited
edition of 750 copies, this re-issue of the original text including
over 80 original copperplate engravings, woodblock prints, and
lithographs returns the text to its original state, while the
accompanying companion volume critically reframes this monumental,
but often misunderstood, work. The new volume shows how Tod’s
Annals is not merely the product of the singular voice of a Western
“orientalist” imagination, instead revealing a richly complex
work in which Rajasthani voices provide a “multi-authored”
heterogeneity to the text which is often discordant and
unpredictable. Re-articulating the variety of voices that
simultaneously inhabit Tod’s Annals, the revised volume argues
for a more conjunctural, contingent, and open-ended reading of
colonial history. Distributed for the Royal Asiatic Society
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