Royal umbrellas of stone : memory, politics, and public identity in Rajput funerary art

Royal umbrellas of stone : memory, politics, and public identity in Rajput funerary art /

"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 f...

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Main Author: Belli Bose, Melia
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden : Brill, 2015
Series:Brill's Indological library ; 48.
Subjects:
Rajput (Indic people) > Social life and customs.
Rajput (Indic people) > Religion.
Sepulchral monuments > India > Rajasthan > History.
Funeral rites and ceremonies > India > Rajasthan > History.
Rajput art > History.
Art and society > India > Rajasthan > History.
Memory > Social aspects > India > Rajasthan > History.
Politics and culture > India > Rajasthan > History.
Group identity > India > Rajasthan > History.
Rajasthan (India) > Social life and customs.
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
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.

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