Royal umbrellas of stone : : memory, politics, and public identity in Rajput funerary art / / by Melia Belli Bose.
"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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| Superior document: | Brill's Indological library, volume 48 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden : : Brill,, [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Brill's Indological library ;
v. 48. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (341 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.