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The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen: Heroic Pasts in India, c. 1500-1900 Sreenivasan, Ramya (Associate Professor, Department of South Asia Studies)
The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen: Heroic Pasts in India, c. 1500-1900
Sreenivasan, Ramya (Associate Professor, Department of South Asia 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. This book investigates these legends and traces their subsequent appropriation by colonial administrators and nationalist intellectuals, for varying different political ends.
280 pages, 4 maps
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | December 20, 2007 |
| ISBN13 | 9780295987606 |
| Publishers | University of Washington Press |
| Pages | 286 |
| Dimensions | 152 × 229 × 17 mm · 408 g |