Title: The many lives of a Rajput queen : heroic pasts in India c. 1500-1900 /
Authors: Sreenivasan, Ramya.
Publisher: University of Washington Press,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Padmavati, In literature.; National characteristics, East Indian, in literature.; Collective memory India History.; India Historiography.
Abstract: Sreenivasan explores how early modern regional elites, caste groups and mythical, and monastic communities shaped their distinctive versions of the past through the repeated refashioning of the legend of Padmini.