Cynthia Talbot

The Last Hindu Emperor

Prithviraj Chauhan and the Indian Past, 1200-2000

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Produktbeschreibung

This book traces the genealogy and historical memory of the twelfth-century ruler Prithviraj Chauhan, remembered as the 'last Hindu Emperor of India'.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 325
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 238mm x 153mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 640g
• ISBN-13: 9781107118560
• ISBN-10: 1107118565
• Artikelnr.: 42793603

Autorenporträt

Cynthia Talbot is Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. She is author of Precolonial India in Practice: Society, Region, and Identity in Medieval Andhra (2001), co-author (with Catherine B. Asher) of India before Europe (with Catherine B. Asher, Cambridge, 2006), and editor of Knowing India: Colonial and Modern Constructions of the Past (2011). Her scholarship has been supported by numerous organizations including the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Institute for Advanced Study, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Institute of Indian Studies.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: layers of memory
2. Literary trajectories of the historic king
3. Delhi in the making of the last Hindu emperor
4. The heroic vision of a regional elite
5. Imagining the Rajput past in Mughal-era Mewar
6. Validating Prithviraj R¿so in colonial India, 1820s-70s
7. Contested meanings in a nationalist age, 1880s-1940s
8. Epilogue: the postcolonial Prithviraj
Bibliography
Index.