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The Last Hindu Emperor : Prithviraj Chauhan and the Indian Past, 1200-2000 /
"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. Surveying a wealth of narratives that span more than...
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Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press,
2016
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Table of Contents:
- 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 Prithvīrāj Rāso in colonial India, 1820s-70s
- 7. Contested meanings in a nationalist age, 1880s-1940s
- 8. Epilogue: The postcolonial Prithviraj
- Appendix: Prithvīrāj Rāso's textual history.