The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen: Heroic Pasts in India, C.1500-1900

by RamyaSreenivasan (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2007

  $37.42

  The medieval Rajput queen Padmini - believed to have been pursued by Alauddin Khalji, the Sultan of Delhi - has been the focus of numerous South Asian narratives. This book investigates these legends and traces their subsequent appropriation by colonial administrators and nationalist intellectuals, for varying different political ends.

• New

  Hardcover
  2007

  $115.01

  The medieval Rajput queen Padmini - believed to have been pursued by Alauddin Khalji, the Sultan of Delhi - has been the focus of numerous South Asian narratives. This book investigates these legends and traces their subsequent appropriation by colonial administrators and nationalist intellectuals, for varying different political ends.