![]() ![]() This fascinating new study traces traditions and memories relating to the twelfth-century Indian ruler Prithviraj Chauhan: a Hindu King who was defeated and overthrown during the conquest of Northern India by Muslim armies from Afghanistan. Retellings of Prithviraj's story in colonial modernityĪppendix: Prdotthvīrāj Rāso’s textual history In defense of tradition: Pandya's rebuttal Introduction: debating the Rāso's historicity ![]() Introduction: James Tod and the last Hindu emperorįrom bardic to colonial knowledge with Todħ Contested meanings in a nationalist age, 1880s-1940s Violence and the rhetoric of political allegianceĦ Validating Prdotthvīrāj Rāso in colonial India, 1820s-1870s Introduction: redacting Prdotthvīrāj Rāsoīuilding fame in seventeenth-century Mewar Introduction: regional rivalries in Prdotthvīrāj Rāsoĥ Imagining the Rajput past in Mughal-era Mewar The draw of Delhi across the Indic/Persian divideįrom Tomar to Chauhan rule in Delhi inscriptionsĤ The heroic vision of an elite regional epic Introduction: telling the Rāso in Persian Thirteenth-century Indo-Persian perspectivesģ Delhi in the making of the last Hindu emperor Seeing Prithviraj through contemporary sources Geopolitical setting of an age of conflict ![]() Embedded strata: Prdotthvīrāj Rāso and James TodĢ Literary trajectories of the historic king ![]()
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