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Royal umbrellas of stone : memory, politics, and public identity in Rajput funerary art /

"In Royal Umbrellas of Stone : Memory, Politics, and Public Identity in Rajput Funerary Art, Melia Belli Bose provides the first analysis of Rajput chatrīs ('umbrellas'; cenotaphs) built between the sixteenth to early-twentieth centuries. New kings constructed chatrīs for their late...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Belli Bose, Melia
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : Brill, 2015.
Colección:Brill's Indological library ; 48.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Chronological chart of Rajput and other dynasties
  • Introduction: Rajputs and their royal umbrellas
  • Interrupted continuities : the chatris of the Kachhwaha Rajputs of Amber and Jaipur
  • Keeping up with the Kachhwahas : the chatris of the Narukas of Alwar, the Dadu Panthis, and the Shekhawati merchants
  • A deceptive message of resistance : nostalgia and the early Jodha Rathores' renaissant devals
  • Shifting allegiances, shifting styles : later Jodha Rathore memorials
  • Devi Kund Sagar : the iconography of sati and its absence in Bikaner's chatris
  • Eklingji's divine darbar : the Sisodia chatris of Mewar
  • Conclusion: Beyond Rajasthan
  • Glossary 299.