Textures of time
Subtitle: writing history in South India, 1600-1800
By: Velcheru Narayana Rao, David Shulman, Sanjay Subrahmanyam.
Contributors: Shulman, David Dean, 1949-; Subrahmanyam, Sanjay.
Publisher: Permanent Black; Distributed by Orient Longman
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Delhi; Bangalore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: India, South -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-283) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Preface x; title: 1 Introduction: A Palette of Histories 1; title: 1. Listening for History; title: 2. Matters of Fact11; title: 3. Letters Traced on Paper 19; title: 2 On the Battle of Bobbili, January 1757 24; title: 1. Introduction: Tiger Town 24; title: 2. B6bbili-yuddha-katha (1): Bussy's Blunders 26; title: 3. Bobbili-yuddha-katha (2): Intersecting Frames 40; title: 4. Playing with Fate: The Pedda Bobbili Raju Katha 42; title: 5. 'This Tragic Ground': Colonial Perspectives on Bobbili 50; title: 6. Ratiga-raya caritramu (1): Prehistory 61; title: 7. Raiiga-raya caritramu (2): 'Why should the Greedy; title: Think Nobly?' 65; title: 8. ReviewingBobbili 73; title: 9. Excursus: The Padmanabha War, 1794 79; title: 3 Of Karanams and Kings 93; title: 1. Remembering and Recording 93; title: 2. The Kakatiya Retrospective 96; title: 3., Kumara Rama and Polika Rama 100; title: 4, Minister and King: The Raya-vacakamu 115; title: 5. The Too-clever Karanam: On the Tafijavari Andhra; title: Rajula Caritra 129; title: 6. Conclusion 136; title: 4 Senji,1714 140; title: 1. A Bundela among the Tamils 140; title: 2. On Fame: Two Empirical Essays 146; title: 3. History Transformed: The Desingu Raja Katha 156; title: 4. The Hero's Empty Field 165; title: 5. Teyvika Rajan and the Shatter-Zone State 171; title: 6. Conclusion: On Synchronicity 179; title: 5 Tarikh, Caritra, Bakhar 184; title: 1. Senji Revisited 184; title: 2. Jaswant Rai: A Brahmin from Ghazni writes; title: Arcot's History 189; title: 3. Jaswant Rai on Tej Singh 200; title: 4. From Arabic to Persian 209; title: 5. From Pawn to Queen: The Rise of the Bakhar 223; title: 6. Karmataka Rajakkal: Flattening the Loops of Time 239; title: 7. Conclusion: The Sphere of Circulation 249; title: 6 Conclusion 252; title: 1. History's Warp and Weft 252; title: 2. Mistaken Identity: Kalhana's Raja-tararigini 254; title: 3. Gangadevi's Pseudo-History 261; title: 4. History from below: Daupti Kaifiyatu 263; title: Bibliography 271; title: Index 285.