...André Wink Naukar, Rajput and Sepoy: The Ethnohistory of the Military Labour Market in Hindustan, 1450–1839 . By Dirk H. A. Kolff . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1990 . xvi, 217 pp. $49.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 758 THE JOURNAL...

...Milo C. Beach Rajput Art and Architecture . By Hermann Goetz . Edited by Jyotindra Jain and Jutta Jain-Neubauer . Wiesbaden : Franz Steiner Verlag (Schriftenreihe des Südasien-Institut Universität Heidelberg, Band 26), 1978 . xxi , 229 pp. Plates, Bibliography, Index. DM36...

...Cynthia Talbot The Mertiyo Rathors of Merto, Rajasthan: Select Translations Bearing on the History of a Rajput Family, 1462–1660 . Vols. 1–2. Translated By Richard D. Saran and Norman P. Ziegler . Ann Arbor : Centers for South and Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan , 2001...

...Frances Taft Between Two Worlds: A Rajput Officer in the Indian Army, 1905–21 . By DeWitt C. Ellinwood . Lanham, Md. : Hamilton Books , 2005 . iv , 679 pp. $76.00 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2006 2006 B O O K R E V I E W S S O U T H A S I A 429 tion, he...

...Norman P. Ziegler; Richard Saran The Rajput Rebellion against Aurangzeb: A Study of the Mughal Empire in Seventeenth Century India . By Robert C. Hallissey . Columbia and London : University of Missouri Press , 1977 . xi, 119 pp. Maps, Notes, Glossary, Bibliography, Index. $ 11.50...

...Ann Grodzins Gold The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen: Heroic Pasts in India c. 1500–1900 . By Ramya Sreenivasan . Seattle : University of Washington Press , 2007 . x , 276 pp. $75.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper) . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2008 2008...

...Carol Henderson Religion and Rajput Women: The Ethic of Protection in Contemporary Narratives . By Lindsey Harlan . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1992 . 26 photos, xiv, 260 pp. $35.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1993 1993 BOOK REVIEWS...

..., in excavating an emergent Rajput worldview in Sultanate Gujarat, In Praise of Kings opens up a new area for exploration. Historians of medieval and early modern South Asian literature, particularly Old Gujarati/Marwari and Sanskrit works, of Rajput pasts, and of Hindu-Muslim relations will find this book...

...Susan S. Wadley Rethinking India's Oral and Classical Epics: Draupadī among Rajputs, Muslims, and Dalits . By Alf Hiltebeitel . Chicago : University of Chicago Press . 1999 . xiv. 560 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $29.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2000 2000...

...Anne Hardgrove Abstract T he legal debate in india over the worship and glorification of sati (widow burning, previously spelled “suttee”) stands unresolved at present. After several years of controversy, the practice of worshipping sati was made illegal in 1987 after the death of a young Rajput...

.... At the center of my inquiry is a puzzling cultural fact, the seemingly paradoxical claim by many nonviolent Jains to be descended from warlike Rājpūts. Despite its extreme emphasis on ascetic withdrawal from the world, Jainism is, as I hope to show, deeply implicated in the worldly identity of certain social...

... of politics makes cross-cutting loyalties easier to develop than in the case of a confrontation of exclusive caste groups (e.g. the Nairs and Ezhavas in Kerala, or Kammas and Harijans in Andhra, or Rajputs and Bhumihars in Bihar, until very recendy). In cases like the latter, although die development...

... REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 759 from the late sixteenth century on by a new Rajput Great Tradition, exemplified especially in Rajasthan and most of all in Mewar, emphasizing genealogical orthodoxy. It is this later orthodoxy, Kolff says, that shaped the understanding of Rajput history we inherited from Tod...

... (paper). The veneration of heroic gures from a valorous martial past has been and is still a crucial feature of the self-image of the Rajputs of Rajasthan. Traditionally, scholarship has focused on the role of elite men re ning their Rajput lineages through tales of the exploits of their great leaders...

... historical fact, through multiple retellings and refashionings, to become an emblem of the Rajput warrior ethos by the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Less than a hundred years later, by the later seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, Prithviraj came to symbolize heroic Rajput...

..., thanks to the masterful scholarship of Susanne Hoeber Rudolph and Lloyd Rudolph, political scientists turned humanists, who skillfully take us into the depths of a life richly but reflectively led, even while helping us to situate it within the larger framework of Rajput and imperial history and politics...

... rich and analytically perceptive ethnographic study of the caste system, kinship, and marriage in one of the northern fringe areas of Hindu India. Simply for familiarizing us with the social organization of a region of Rajput dominance on which we have little anthropological data Parry's work would...

... into a thoughtful analytical work having implications for such wider interests as political integration and modernization. The problem examined is the change in political structure of a traditionally Rajput-dominated village in the Shaikawati region of erstwhile Jaipur State (now in Jaipur District), consequent...

... Hills: Kutch in History and Legend: A Study in Indian Local Loyalties. By L. F. RUSHBROOK WILLIAMS. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1958. xii, 276. Maps, Plates. Kutch was formerly a Rajput state and now forms part of the "linguistic" state of Gujarat. The author lived in Kutch about twenty years ago...

... scholarship of Susanne Hoeber Rudolph and Lloyd Rudolph, political scientists turned humanists, who skillfully take us into the depths of a life richly but reflectively led, even while helping us to situate it within the larger framework of Rajput and imperial history and politics. The result is a publication...