{"product_id":"the-many-lives-of-a-rajput-queen-9780295987606","title":"The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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. This book investigates these legends and traces their subsequent appropriation by colonial administrators and nationalist intellectuals, for varying different political ends.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Sreenivasan has produced a nuanced and inventive work of South Asian history combining disciplined textual and archival research with compelling historical arguments. Her book places literary production and changes in literary form firmly into a social history framework that enlivens the South Asian historical field. \u003ci\u003eThe Many Lives of a Rajput Queen\u003c\/i\u003e, given its range, detail, and originality, is destined to occupy a familiar place on the bookshelves of not only South Asian historians, but scholars of literary culture, early modern literary history, and the sociology of literature.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Itinerario *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[A]n important contribution to cultural and social history. Sreenivasan's analysis of the mutations of the Padmini legend reveals the changing gender relations over the centuries. . . . A comprehensive bibliography and summaries of selected versions of the legend included as an appendix add to the value of the book.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Sixteenth Century Journal *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A welcome contribution. . . . Meticulously researched, Many Lives of a Rajput Queen is located within the context of the very real and often politically-charged debates over the relationship between any historical event and the multiple perspectives on it that are subsequently generated.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Canadian Journal of History *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"This wide-ranging monograph effortlessly traverses regions and genres to study the evolution of a historical memory . . . . Sreenivasan analyzes Padmini's story through its entire narrative trajectory, deploying at once the skills of a historian who combines an understanding of religious thought and social history and those of a literary scholar deeply familiar with gendered tropes in narrative and discourse.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Association for Asian Studies Coomaraswamy prize committee *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"A masterful and admirable scholarly achievement. . . .Sreenivasan's singular accomplishment in this meticulously researched account is to demonstrate more convincingly and thoroughly than I have ever seen done before the wonderfully complex entanglements of literature and politics, of history and legend.\"\u003c\/p\u003e * Journal of Asian Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Note on Transliteration and Usage\u003cbr\u003e List of Maps\u003cbr\u003e 1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 2. Sufi Tale of Rajputs in Sixteenth-century Avadh\u003cbr\u003e 3. Rajput Kings and their Pasts in the Mughal Period\u003cbr\u003e 4. Tales of Past Glory under Early Colonial Indirect Rule (c. 1750-1850)\u003cbr\u003e 5. Exemplary Patriotism in the Late Nineteenth Century\u003cbr\u003e 6. Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e 7. Appendix 1: Summaries of Selected Versions of the Legend\u003cbr\u003e 8. Appendix 2: List of Known Versions \/ Manuscripts \/ Editions of the Padmini Legend\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MV - University of Washington Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51036873556311,"sku":"9780295987606","price":29.66,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780295987606.jpg?v=1750932820","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-many-lives-of-a-rajput-queen-9780295987606","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}