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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 325–333.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Cynthia Talbot Abstract In tribute to Allison Busch, who did so much to restore the reputation of vernacular literature not just as poetry but also as history, Talbot offers an account of an obscure Rajput warrior from Bikaner who decided it would be better to die. In asking why Ramsingh...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 356–361.
Published: 01 August 2022
... is an illustrated manuscript that was transcribed in 1758. The second and third manuscripts were transcribed in 1836 and 1845 respectively and were both discovered in the Awadh region of present-day Uttar Pradesh. All three manuscripts seem to have been produced for members of the Hindu Rajput warrior community...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 381–387.
Published: 01 August 2022
...Dalpat Singh Rajpurohit Abstract Allison Busch's seminal work on the classical Hindi literature of Mughal India demonstrated how the composition of works of poetic theory ( ritigranth s) became a defining literary enterprise of vernacular court poets in the Mughal-Rajput milieu. Though firmly based...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 370–380.
Published: 01 August 2022
... translated between 2009 and 2017, especially on the climactic event of the poems: the killing and beheading of the Rajput Arjun Singh by Anupgiri Gosain (a.k.a. Himmat Bahadur). In the course of the essay Pinch describes two visits to eastern Bundelkhand in search of traces of the events and personalities...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1998) 18 (1): 21–29.
Published: 01 May 1998
... 100,000 devotees belonging to
formulated as follows: “Baba Ramdev, whom we believe all castes and creeds to the main temple-samadhi be-
to be an incarnation of Vishnu and whose main priests tween Jodhpur and Jaisalmer (about 100 kdometers
and descendants we are, was a Rajput (Kshatriya) by from...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1996) 16 (1): 41–54.
Published: 01 May 1996
... as “proofs” of Islamic ag- mini ritually burns herself to death following the
gressions in India are numerous enough to form a Rajput code of honor.
genre in themselves: the looting of the Temple of The most famous textual retelling of this Rajput
Somnath by Mahmud of Ghazna in the 1 lth...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (1): 96–116.
Published: 01 May 2015
... of imperial politics in South Asia. © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 equestrian portrait horses Mughal empire Rajputs Sikhs I am grateful to Rohan Deb Roy for incorporating this article into this special section, “Nonhuman Empires.” I am also grateful to Sujit Sivasundaram, Stephen...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 362–369.
Published: 01 August 2022
... Dhavan, When Sparrows Became Hawks ; and Talbot, “Becoming Turk the Rajput Way.” 17. See Dhavan, When Sparrows Became Hawks ; Kolff, Naukar, Rajput, and Sepoy ; Pinch, Warrior Ascetics and Indian Empires ; and Gordon, Robes of Honour . 18. Talbot, “Becoming Turk the Rajput...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1997) 17 (2): 35–45.
Published: 01 August 1997
... the
tions. The Muslim Merat, Bhatti, Musalman and Hindu-Muslim relationship has been understood and
Kayamkhani Rajputs and Khanzadas of Rajasthan, the represented. A dominant approach to Hindu-Muslim
Malkana Rajputs of central India inhabit an interstitial relations in politico-administrative...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2020) 40 (1): 86–94.
Published: 01 May 2020
... as domestic servants), though her job is insecure. A Rajput (a relatively “high” caste), she is also, like Ehsaan, from a village in Bihar. Putli hates her paid job of cleaning toilets. It is not what high-caste Rajput women do. The unspoken here is that this is “outside” work that Balmikis (formerly...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1989) 9 (2): 78–82.
Published: 01 August 1989
... women willingly accepted this On 4 September 1987, Roop Kanwar, a young Rajput
system and considered it superior to the Western one. Al- widow committed sari by immolating herself in the funeral
though she recognized that there does not exist a system of pyre of her dead husband. This event...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 289–292.
Published: 01 August 2022
... poets who wrote and produced important critical works in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, as they moved to-and-fro across Rajput and Mughal courts. As Busch pointed out in her introduction, such movements would be familiar to any intellectual historian of, say, France who could trace...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (2): 310–329.
Published: 01 August 2018
... and the Spatial, Ideological, and Practical Limits of Colonial Control in the Nineteenth-Century Rajput and Maratha States .” Indian Economic and Social History Review 46 , no. 3 ( 2009 ): 315 – 42 .
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. Slavery, Abolitionism, and Empire in India, 1772–1843 . Liverpool, UK...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2004) 24 (2): 23–31.
Published: 01 August 2004
... to minister Nana Phadnis wrote to the king of England on
correspond with the Rajput courts of Rajasthan in San- behalf of the infant peshwa explaining recent events in
skrit.51 In part, this may have been a counter to the in- the kingdom (Persian words are printed in bold):
creasingly Islamic tone...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1996) 16 (1): 68–76.
Published: 01 May 1996
... (the
upon Rajput bardic materials, relates that the victori- spokesman for Hinduism at the 1893 World Parlia-
ous Hindu armies divided their Afghan, Turk, and ment of Religions in Chicago). Ahsan notes that this
Mughal prisoners according to status and enrolled unified concept of India...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 348–355.
Published: 01 August 2022
..., the courts of the Rajputs of western India in the eighteenth century (e.g., Amer, Kota, Mewar) were known for such political arrangements. 7 Moreover, is “two kings” merely about kings and queens or is there something more that the historian needs to recover from the narratives of two kings in eighteenth...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1981) 1 (1): 23–29.
Published: 01 May 1981
... Location: Gondal is is caste-ridden. There are high•
located about 150 miles south- caste Brahmins, Banias (Vaishyas),
west of Ahmedabad, capital of Rajputs (Kshatriyas) and Harijans.
Gujarat; and 300 miles from Bombay. The caste...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2015) 35 (2): 232–245.
Published: 01 August 2015
... such
the forms of ambivalence above. But in what ways as the low-status Moghias and high-status Rajput
might we understand the secret or not so secret warriors and kings.
pleasures that may accompany killing and death It is not impossible to find a philosophical...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2018) 38 (3): 367–374.
Published: 01 December 2018
... Malavika . Embattled Identities: Rajput Identities and the Colonial State in Nineteenth- Century North India . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2002 . Kolsky Elizabeth . Colonial Justice in British India: White Violence and the Rule of Law . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press...
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Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2022) 42 (2): 293–308.
Published: 01 August 2022
... of later Mughal and Rajput representations of eros. When the pair begin to make love, the painter is not shy to show the act, because it, too, was a venerable, and indeed iconic, subject in India's visual arts. Figure 10. Illustration of stanza 27 from a scroll, opaque watercolor and gold on cloth...
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