Essays on Rajputana
Author : Susanne Hoeber Rudolph
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,18 MB
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : Susanne Hoeber Rudolph
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 40,18 MB
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN :
Author : S. H. Rudolph
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,42 MB
Release : 1984-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780391031296
Author : Lindsey Harlan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 40,3 MB
Release : 2024-06-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0520378415
What is the relationship between caste and gender in the narratives of Rajput woman? During a year and a half of fieldwork in Rajasthan, a parched land dominated by the great Indian Desert, Lindsey Harlan interviewed more than a hundred women from all levels of Rajput society. She wanted to understand why certain religious practices were so important to Rajput women, and how they justified these to themselves. During the course of her interviews, the women described their religious practices—chief among them the worship of the family kuldevi (the goddess who exemplifies the ideal wife by staving off sickness, poverty, and infertility) and the veneration of satimatas (women who have immolated themselves on their husband's funeral pyre). As the women discussed these rituals, many of them also told Harlan religious myths and stories, drawing parallels between their behavior and that of various Indian heroines. These narratives and the role they play in the women's self-perception are the fascinating and enlightening subject of this book. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.
Author : DeWitt C. Ellinwood
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 17,53 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780761831136
Diary of Amar Singh with annotations, commentary, and introduction by DeWitt C. Ellinwood, Jr.
Author : Angma Dey Jhala
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 25,4 MB
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1317314433
Examines the political worldview of courtly and royal women in India during the late colonial and post-Independence period. This book offers a history of the zenana, which served as the 'women's courts' or 'female quarters of the palace', where women lived behind pardah in seclusion.
Author : Lindsey Harlan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 34,46 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195154269
This title examines the worship of ancestral heroes in Rajasthan, India. Arguing that Rajput hero stories and songs encapsulate and express ideals of perfection and masculinity, it analyzes representations of wives and goddesses as tacit allies dispatching sacrificed heroes to heavenly paradise.
Author : Ramya Sreenivasan
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 28,2 MB
Release : 2015-08-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0295997850
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.
Author : Sanjay Srivastava
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 46,88 MB
Release : 2005-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1134683596
An interdisciplinary, engaging book which looks at the nature of Indian society since Independence. By focusing on the Doon school, a famous boarding school in India, it unpacks what post-colonialism means to Indian citizens.
Author : D. Asher Ghertner
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 46,41 MB
Release : 2021-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1501753754
Land Fictions explores the common storylines, narratives, and tales of social betterment that justify and enact land as commodity. It interrogates global patterns of property formation, the dispossessions property markets enact, and the popular movements to halt the growing waves of evictions and land grabs. This collection brings together original research on urban, rural, and peri-urban India; rapidly urbanizing China and Southeast Asia; resource expropriation in Africa and Latin America; and the neoliberal urban landscapes of North America and Europe. Through a variety of perspectives, Land Fictions finds resonances between local stories of land's fictional powers and global visions of landed property's imagined power to automatically create value and advance national development. Editors D. Asher Ghertner and Robert W. Lake unpack the dynamics of land commodification across a broad range of political, spatial, and temporal settings, exposing its simultaneously contingent and collective nature. The essays advance understanding of the politics of land while also contributing to current debates on the intersections of local and global, urban and rural, and general and particular. Contributors Erik Harms, Michael Watts, Sai Balakrishnan, Brett Christophers, David Ferring, Sarah Knuth, Meghan Morris, Benjamin Teresa, Mi Shih, Michael Levien, Michael L. Dwyer, Heather Whiteside
Author : Siegfried O. Wolf
Publisher : Springer
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 17,6 MB
Release : 2014-11-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3319090879
The book introduces central themes that have preoccupied the field of South Asian politics over the last few decades and identifies new, emerging areas of research. Presenting both general political theory and context-specific case studies, the collection draws attention to the methodological challenges of working on an area-specific theme and the importance of generating generalizable insights linked to theory. Hence it will be of interest for political scientists working on South Asian politics as well as on other non-Western societies. The collection represents an unusually broad survey of scholarship emerging from a range of leading academic centres in the field.