... of the lesser-known texts of the Gorakhbani , often called granth s, and examines how they were composed to address specific audiences and topics. In particular, Marrewa-Karwoski considers the Narvai Bodh ( Instructions to the King ) and explore how the Nath sampraday negotiates power and sovereignty in a text...

..., but rather that of an earlier king. These earlier events, together with the geography of conquest and pilgrimage provided by Dhanapāla, suggest a political subtext for the hymn; namely, a veiled critique of the inability of the Cauḷukya kings of Gujarat to protect the religious landscape, and a veiled praise...

...Ronen Yitzhak King `Abdallah's political ambitions in Palestine—the annexation of Palestine to Transjordan under his rule—and his wish to send his army (the Arab Legion) to realize these ambitions, worried leaders of Arab countries. In an attempt to prevent King `Abdallah from realizing this goal...

...Samyak Ghosh Abstract This article situates the court of the Tungkhungia kings of Brahmaputra Valley (1680–1830), in present day Assam, in the space of courtly convergence and response in eighteenth-century South Asia. It studies a particular moment in the Tungkhungia royal court (1714–44) when...

...Jesse Ross Knutson Knutson’s essay examines contemporary accounts in Sanskrit verse of the conquered territories of King Laksmanasena of Bengal (c. late twelfth/early thirteenth century), situating their false claims in a larger history of petty kings’ competing false claims about themselves...

...). Sabalsingh Chauhan's seventeenth-century Mahabharat is a bhakti (devotional) retelling of the Mahabharata epic. In the prologue of the sixteenth book of his Mahabharat , Chauhan describes himself performing his poem in Delhi before Aurangzeb and a king named Mitrasen. He also praises Mitrasen in the prologue...

...Naz Yücel Abstract This article investigates the transformation of three coeval monarchs—Sultan Abdülhamid II (r. 1876–1909), Queen Victoria (r. 1837–1901), and King Leopold II (r. 1865–1909)—into private landed property owners in the late nineteenth century. In its comparisons, the article centers...

...Mohammed El-Sayed Bushra Abstract Scholarship on Saudi involvement in the Cold War emphasizes key developments under King Faisal. This article demonstrates the merits of extending the study of the Saudi role in the Cold War to earlier periods. Examining the career of a little-discussed migrant...

...Jesse Knutson Kalhaṇa's twelfth-century chronicle the “River of Kings” ( Rājataraṅgiṇī ) is often recognized as the first work of history writing in South Asia. Knutson's article specifies some of the possibilities and impossibilities for historical analysis that Kalhaṇa reflects upon in his...

... in King Abdullah’s political jockeying between Jordanians and Palestinians memoirs, an effort to tie the modern Hashemites’ claim regarding their respective national standing in the Holy for religious legitimacy beyond their ancestral birthplace Land. In the year 2000, a Jubilee Year on the Catholic...

...Susan Ossman © 2007 by Duke University Press 2007 Cinderella, CVs, and Neighborhood Nemima: Announcing Morocco’s Royal Wedding Susan Ossman His Majesty Mohammed VI is inscribing the Moroccan monarchy into modernity. For the first time in this country the king has chosen...

... of advice to kings, or “mirrors the local understanding of relations characterized by moderns for princes,” as scholars increasingly realize, was not just the as oriental despotism, patrimonial-bureaucratic government, self-referential pastime of a frustrated scribal class but an or the Asiatic Mode...

... of freedom,- came a primary actor in the evolution of history and the the message of strength, the message of building, the writing of it. message of protecting our sacred things and our sacred King Hussein’s quote above comes from the 1959 Jorda- land, and the message of protecting the land...

... the causes cenaries, and as reward gifted or sold them land, sometimes of Sri Lanka's ethnic conflict. One of these would have us to the extent of whole villages (Abeysinghe, 1978:67-73). believe that the root problem is a traditional animosity In 1581, Mayadunne's son became King...

... that such exhortations to good behavior had always existed. What was unique about this milieu was that some of these good manners were now gaining the backing of the law and the king. For example, in the twelfth century, under the Qara Khitai, a non-Muslim dynasty that ruled over parts of Muslim Central Asia, maxims...

.... predicament.”7 Limit- and ancient Thai, Khmer, and Sinhalese king- ing studies to modern Western historical cases, doms—each balancing moral ideas with state What’s...

... • Kitabkhana 361 Smith, Pamela H., and Paula Findlen. Marvels and Mer- The answer to my question was satisfactory chants: Commerce, Science, and Art in Early Modern Eu- at the time because Sarkar’s histories focused on rope. New York: Routledge, 2002. prominent actors, mostly kings...