...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...

...Alastair McClure The Queen’s Proclamation in 1858, her first gesture as the sovereign figurehead of India, offered amnesty to large numbers of those involved in the rebellion. From this point, the royal figure would be invoked at jubilee celebrations and royal durbars, offering royal pardon...

... and Jaora's nawabs and a mutually defensive exchange between Jaora's nawabs and the British authorities. In postindependence India, Husain Tekri's ongoing status as a waqf institution directly controlled by the nawab has allowed for continued royal sovereignty. Husain Tekri has thus perpetuated links between...

...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...

... unprecedented metapoetic historiographical prologue, suggesting ways it may reflect and reflect upon a broader aesthetic of history that it shares with royal epigraphy, and pointing out some basic coordinates it takes from a Persianate historical poetry tradition exemplified by Firdawsī's Shāhnāmah . The essay...

..., the death of Queen Elizabeth II (r. 1952–2022) prompted a flurry of newspaper articles related to the British monarchy's finances during this moment that marked royal succession following the death of the longest-reigning British monarch. This article references select newspaper articles as necessary...

... . King of the World: The Padshahnama: An Imperial Mughal Manuscript from the Royal Library, Windsor Castle . Translated by Thackston William . London : Azimuth Editions , 1997 . Bernier Francois . Travels in the Mogul Empire, AD 1656-1668 . Translated by Brock I. . London...

... of Justice appeared together in Sumerian royal in- lamic influences. Although as a student of Middle Eastern scriptions, such as this one from around 2350: political thought I cannot pursue this quotation through the When Enlil, king of all lands...

... The Qajar state was a patrimonial one where the glory and possessor of royal charisma (farr-i hah hi state was conceived as the property of the ruler, Sov- Yet, in spite of the supernatural aura that permeated ereignty was to a large extent rooted in the authority his person and his office, he...

... the real subject of Pollock’s book, that Compelling as is Pollock’s account of the rise shapes it and governs its selection of topics. of Sanskrit as a medium of royal self-­presentation, This selectivity is an important part of what however, it does not by any means...

.... Literary and Political Territories in Sena PeriodSena Bengal in LiteraryTerritories Political and cally commented on what he was doing, made There is a series of verses in the Sena royal what is probably the most self- conscious explo- anthology (Saduktikarnamrta) dealing with the ration...

... Veronique . “ Aurangzeb and the Nāth Yogīs .” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 28 , no. 3 ( 2018 ): 525 – 35 . Bouillier Veronique . “ Growth and Decay of a Kanphata Yogi Monastery in South-West Nepal .” Indian Economic Social History 28 , no. 2 ( 1991 ): 151 – 70...

..., and at others the victory of Turkish forces over the Hindu Rajputs a bridge spanning this communal chasm. The story of Muslim retelling like Padmavat seems to belong to the the sack of the Rajput capital of Chittaur by the same discursive field as royal panegyrics commemo- Turkish forces of Emperor Ala...

... gradually replaced by state builders, see Kodesh, Beyond the Royal Gaze . 123. Skinner, “African Studies” ; Greene, “Symbols and Social Activism” ; Owomoyela, “With Friends Like These” ; Zeleza, “The Perpetual Solitudes and Crises of African Studies in the United States.” For more, see West...