Amar Singh Rathor

Author : KAMLESH PANDEY
Publisher : Amar Chitra Katha Pvt Ltd
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1971-04-01
Category : Biographical comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 9788184821857

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Amar singh rathor by KAMLESH PANDEY Pdf

Amar Singh Rathor was a commander in the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan's army. The emperor held him in great esteem and valued his service. But once when Shah Jahan was tricked into imposing a heavy fine on the Rajput by jealous and scheming courtiers, Amar Singh was furious and defiant. In the ensuing battle for honour, the Rajput fought bravely and escaped but was killed by his treacherous brother-in-law. His body was, however, retrieved from the emperor's custody by two comrades and cremated with due respect.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : OCLC:1319188168

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Amar Singh Rathor by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jeffrey G. Snodgrass
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006-08-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780190293932

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Casting Kings by Jeffrey G. Snodgrass Pdf

Based on three years of anthropological fieldwork in the Indian state of Rajasthan, Casting Kings explores the manner in which semi-nomadic performers known as Bhats understand, and also subvert, caste hierarchies. A number of scholars have recently contended that caste is invented and thus a fiction of a kind. But focus in these studies is typically placed on the way caste is imagined according to the agendas and desires of elite Westerners such as colonial officials. In this book, by contrast, the author argues that Bhats themselves understand the imaginative dimensions of caste relations. Indeed, such insights are shown to lie at the heart of the Bhats traditional profession of praise- and insult-singing. Likewise, the author demonstrates how the ability to cleverly rework and even sabotage lingering caste inequalities continues to form the basis for Bhat claims to status and dignity in contemporary India.

Author : Tanuja Kothiyal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107080317

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Nomadic Narratives by Tanuja Kothiyal Pdf

"Discusses the emergence of socio-historical identities in the Thar Desert with the mobility of its inhabitants"--

Author : Kamlesh Pandey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Children's literature, Indic (English)
ISBN : OCLC:179274732

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Amar Singh Rathor by Kamlesh Pandey Pdf

The story of Amar Singh Rathor, a Rajput warrior and commandant in Shah Jahan's army who rebelled after the Shah insulted him. This tale has been adapted from Shri Gheesaram's book, "Amar Singh Rathor."

Author : Richard Saran,Norman P. Ziegler
Publisher : U OF M CENTER FOR SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES
Page : 853 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780472038213

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The Mertiyo Rathors of Merto, Rajasthan by Richard Saran,Norman P. Ziegler Pdf

The Me?tiyo Ra?ho?s of Me?to, Rajasthan is a treasure for scholars of Rajput history. Richard D. Saran and Norman P. Ziegler, whose contributions to Rajput studies are well known to specialists in the field, have given us a work of deep and exacting scholarship. It is the culmination of decades devoted to the study of Middle Marwari chronicles from Rajasthan. The sources translated here provide access to the fortunes of a branch of the Jodhpur royal family, and in doing so they illuminate the larger world of Rajputs in the middle period. The Me?tiyo Ra?ho?s are significant for several reasons. Their story traces the emergence of a Rajput brotherhood into local prominence and follows the establishment of their kingdom on the eastern edge of Marva? as a defined territorial unit. The evolution of the Me?tiyos as a brotherhood passed through several clearly defined stages, including a relationship with the house of Jodhpur that ranged from mutual support among brothers to hostility and clear separation. A study of the Me?tiyos in this context provides a unique view of the formation of a strong and indpenedent Rajput cadet line, of the establishment and defense of a local territory, and of the internal relations among Rajput brotherhoods regarding issues of precedence, honor, patronage, and service. The translations are accompanied by an extensive explanatory apparatus taking various forms, which includes a valuable essay on Rajput social organization, complete genealogies, and biographies of all the major personages of the chronicles.

Author : Lindsey Harlan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0195154266

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The Goddesses' Henchmen by Lindsey Harlan Pdf

This title examines the worship of ancestral heroes in Rajasthan, India. Arguing that Rajput hero stories and songs encapsulate and express ideals of perfection and masculinity, it analyzes representations of wives and goddesses as tacit allies dispatching sacrificed heroes to heavenly paradise.

Author : Elizabeth M. Thelen
Publisher : Gingko Library
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781909942677

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Urban Histories of Rajasthan by Elizabeth M. Thelen Pdf

An exploration of religious conflicts in premodern urban India. Diverse peoples intermingled in the streets and markets of premodern Indian cities. This book considers how these diverse residents lived together and negotiated their differences. Which differences mattered, when and to whom? How did state actions and policies affect urban society and the lives of various communities? How and why did conflict occur in urban spaces? Through these questions, this book explores the histories of urban communities in the three cities of Ajmer, Nagaur, and Pushkar in Rajasthan, between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. The focus of this study is on everyday life, contextualizing religious practices and conflicts by considering patterns of patronage and broader conflict patterns within society. The book examines various archival documents, from family and institutional records to state registers, and uses these documents to demonstrate the complex and sometimes contradictory ways religion intersected with politics, economics, and society. The author shows how many patronage patterns and processes persisted in altered forms, and how the robustness of these structures contributed to the resilience of urban spaces and society in precolonial Rajasthan.

Author : Nancy M. Martin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-07-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195153897

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Mirabai by Nancy M. Martin Pdf

Mirabai, an iconic sixteenth-century Indian poet-saint, is renowned for her unwavering love of God, her disregard for social hierarchies and gendered notions of honor and shame, and her challenge to familial, feudal, and religious authorities. Defying attempts to constrain and even kill her, she could not be silenced. Though verifiable facts regarding her life are few, her fame spread across social, linguistic, and religious boundaries, and stories about her multiplied across the subcontinent and the centuries. In Mirabai, Nancy M. Martin traces the story of this immensely popular Indian saint from the earliest manuscript references to her through colonial and nationalist developments to scholarly and popular portrayals in the decades leading up to Indian independence. This book examines Mirabai's place as both insider and outsider to the developing strands of devotional Hinduism and her role in contested terrain of debates around the education and independence of women and the crafting of Indian and Hindu identities. Mirabai offers a comprehensive and multi-layered portrait of this remarkable and still controversial woman, who continues to be a source of inspiration and catalyst for self-actualization for spiritual seekers, artists, activists, and so many others in India and around the world today.

Author : Dr. Cecil Thomas Ault Jr.
Publisher : Partridge Publishing
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-09
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781482888164

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Folk Theatre of Rajasthan by Dr. Cecil Thomas Ault Jr. Pdf

Tom Ault has written a theatre ethnography that brings Rajasthans folk tradition of khyal to readers in both descriptions and translations of the plays, based on his many periods of research and hanging out with khyal players and affecionados. A performance genre probably stemming from the soliloquies in poetic Pingal and Dingal of Rajasthans bards, known as Charans, these khyals offer folk renditions of rule and misrule, contemporary issues and past heroics, and the romance of Rajput desert kingdoms. Ault has been engaged with these shows there, and as an American theatre professor he knows his subject well. Everyone will find something to enjoy in Aults compendium of khyal, and will probably be tempted to search out a performance of this disappearing folk art at a Rajasthani cattle fair or on a moonlight night in a desert village with stars overhead.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : U OF M CENTER FOR SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES
Page : 558 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015061472638

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The Mertiyo Rathors of Merto, Rajasthan by Anonim Pdf

This book is a treasure for scholars of Rajput history. Richard D. Saran and Norman P. Ziegler, whose contributions to Rajput studies are well known to specialists in the field, have given us a work of deep and exacting scholarship. It is the culmination of decades devoted to the study of Middle Marwari chronicles from Rajasthan. The sources translated here provide access to the fortunes of a branch of the Jodhpur royal family, and in doing so they illuminate the larger world of Rajputs in the middle period. The translations are accompanied by an extensive explanatory apparatus taking various forms, which includes a valuable essay on Rajput social organization, complete genealogies, and biographies of all the major personages of the chronicles. Richard D. Saran received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Michigan. Norman P. Ziegler received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago.

Author : Bluworlds Guides
Publisher : Bluworlds Guides
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Travel
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Taj Mahal Pocket Travel Guide by Bluworlds Guides Pdf

The jewel of India, and the sign of undying love of the world. Taj Mahal, an architectural wonder created by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan for his love, the third wife Mumtaj Mahal. An UNESCO world heritage site, and one of the most photographed building in the world. Taj Mahal pocket travel guide has covered all of Taj Mahal travel along with two UNESCO heritage sites of Agra and Fatehpur Sikri, the ruined capital of Emperor Akbar the Great. The guide is useful for backpackers, holidaymakers, archeological tourist, luxury traveler, and family travelers in tour planning, going there, transportation,accommodation reservations, sightseeing, activity planning, dining, shopping, nightlife and travel. Features: - Taj Mahal in Cinema - Aminent personalities visited - Going to Agra - Taj Mahal - Nearby attractions - Fatehpur Sikri - Shopping in Agra - Agra Nightlife - Activities in Agra - Festivals in Agra - Cuisine of Agra - Restaurants of Agra - Home stays in Agra - Vacation Rentals in Agra - Hotels in Agra - Car rentals - Spas in Agra - Florist in Agra - All basic facts of Agra, useful for travelers - Visa to India - Guidelines for foreign tourists - Tour plans - Map of Agra eBook Features (For Smartphones, Tablets) - PDF editions for offline reading - Zoom-in maps, images for close and clear views - Flip between pages with click-able index - Visit websites by touching embedded links - Adding notes

Author : Kathryn Hansen
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 577 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780520910881

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Grounds for Play by Kathryn Hansen Pdf

The nautanki performances of northern India entertain their audiences with often ribald and profane stories. Rooted in the peasant society of pre-modern India, this theater vibrates with lively dancing, pulsating drumbeats, and full-throated singing. In Grounds for Play, Kathryn Hansen draws on field research to describe the different elements of nautanki performance: music, dance, poetry, popular story lines, and written texts. She traces the social history of the form and explores the play of meanings within nautanki narratives, focusing on the ways important social issues such as political authority, community identity, and gender differences are represented in these narratives. Unlike other styles of Indian theater, the nautanki does not draw on the pan-Indian religious epics such as the Ramayana or the Mahabharata for its subjects. Indeed, their storylines tend to center on the vicissitudes of stranded heroines in the throes of melodramatic romance. Whereas nautanki performers were once much in demand, live performances now are rare and nautanki increasingly reaches its audiences through electronic media—records, cassettes, films, television. In spite of this change, the theater form still functions as an effective conduit in the cultural flow that connects urban centers and the hinterland in an ongoing process of exchange.

Author : Jayasinhji Jhala
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783110601299

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Genealogy, Archive, Image by Jayasinhji Jhala Pdf

‘Genealogy, Archive, Image’ addresses the ways in which history and tradition are ‘reinvented’ through text, memory and painting. It examines the making of dynastic history in the kingdom of Jhalavad, situated in Gujarat, western India, over the longue durée, from the eleventh to twentieth centuries. The essays critique a collection of contemporary miniature paintings, which chart the dynastic history of Jhalavad’s rulers and the textual and ethnographic archive upon which they are based. A multidisciplinary work, it crosses the boundaries of history, anthropology, folklore and mythology, gender, musicology, literary studies, and visual, film and digital media. The essays draw upon a variety of voices, spanning various religious and ethnic communities, including Hindus, Muslims, Jains, Parsees and Siddhi Africans, and caste identities, such as that of the bard, ballad singer, king, priest, court chronicler, soldier, mason and drummer.

Author : Karan Singh
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000769722

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Folk Theatres of North India by Karan Singh Pdf

This book examines folk theatres of North India as a unique performative structure, a counter stream to the postulations of Sanskrit and Western realistic theatre. In focusing on their historical, social and cultural imprints, it explores how these theatres challenge the linearity of cultural history and subvert cultural hegemony. The book looks at diverse forms of theatre such as svangs, nautanki, tamasha, all with conventions like open performative space, free mingling of spectators and actors, flexibility in roles and genres, etc. It discusses the genesis, history and the independent trajectory of folk theatres; folk theatre and Sanskrit dramaturgy; cinematic legacy; and theatrical space as performance besides investigating causes, inter-relations within socio-cultural factors, and the performance principles underlying them. It shows how these theatres effectively contest delimitation of human creative impulses (as revealed in classical Sanskrit theatre) from structuring as also of normative impulses of religion and culture, while amalgamating influences from Western theatre, newly-rising religious reform movements of 19th century India, tantra and Bhakti. It further highlights their ability to adapt and reinvent themselves in accordance with spatial and temporal transformations to constitute an important anthropological layer of Indian society. Comprehensive and empirically rich, this book will be an essential read for scholars and researchers of cultural studies, theatre, film and performance studies, sociology, political studies, popular culture, and South Asian studies.