The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen
Subtitle: Heroic Pasts in India, C. 1500-1900
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: December 30, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780295987606
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history; Asian studies; History; History - General History; History: World; Asia - India; Asia - India & South Asia; Asian - Indic; Gender Studies; Collective memory; India; National characteristics, East Indian, in literature
Description: 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.