The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen

by Ramya Sreenivasan

  use of Puranas

  Bhagchand

  Bhagyavijay

  Bhakti

  Bhama Shah

  bhandar (see libraries)

  Bhat (see also genealogists, Charan)

  Bhattacharya, Rimli

  Bhattacharya, Tithi

  Binodini Dasi

  Blackburn, Stuart

  Braj/Brajbhasha

  canon, literary

  Chakrabarti, Barun

  chakri/chakar (see also grants, service)

  Charan

  charit/charitra

  Chatterjee, Kumkum

  Chatterjee, Partha

  Chattopadhyay, B.D.

  chiefs

  depictions of

  Rajput

  Chishti (see also Sufi/Sufis)

  Chitor

  as Chitaur

  political significance of

  Chitor Udaipur Patnama

  Chittagong

  chronicles (see also khyat and courts)

  Mughal

  Persian

  Rajput

  circulation

  of historical traditions

  and manuscripts

  of narratives

  networks of

  clan (see also kin, kul)

  clients (see also patrons, chiefs)

  colonial

  administration

  changes

  in elite marriage

  in historical method

  in literary narratives

  in literary patronage

  in policy

  in society

  continuities

  historiography

  institutions

  intellectuals

  knowledge

  middle class

  politics

  conjugality

  companionate (see also marriage)

  conventions (see also decorum, narrative)

  narrative

  socio-political

  courts

  courtliness

  Dalmia, Vasudha

  Dalpati Vijay

  Das, S.K.

  dastan

  De Bruijn, Thomas

  decorum

  aesthetic

  socio-political

  drama (see also public theater)

  Dramatic Performances Act (1876)

  East India Company

  Eaton, Richard M.

  elite/elites

  courtly

  imperial

  military

  merchant

  polygyny

  regional

  and regulation of women

  ruling

  upper-caste

  women

  enemy (see also turak, mlecchha)

  erotics (see also nakha-shikha varnan)

  feminine/femininity (see also gender)

  Fisher, Michael

  gacchha

  gaze (see also decorum)

  gender

  norms of

  relations

  genealogists

  genealogy (vanshavali)

  and descent

  and legitimacy

  and patrons

  as source

  genre/genres

  historical mutations of

  as literary conventions

  social contexts of

  Gommans, Jos

  Gorakhnath (see also Nath/Nathpanth)

  grants

  and expectations

  and kinship

  and patron-client relations

  of rights to revenue (see also jagir/jagirdari, chakri)

  recording of

  Guha, Sumit

  Guha-Thakurta, Tapati

  Guhila

  Gyanchand/Gyanchandra

  Hansen, Kathryn

  Haqaiq-i Hindi

  Harlan, Lindsay

  Hasan, Hafiz Khalil Manikpuri

  Hemratan

  heroism

  as inherited

  Hindu (see also turak, Muslim)

  historical narratives

  historical novels

  historiography

  history

  discipline of

  and memory

  honor

  Ibrat, Ziauddin Ghulam Ali (see Ishrat)

  Ilbert Bill (1885)

  Indic (see also Islamicate)

  Ishrat, Ghulam Ali

  Islam

  Islamicate

  itihasa

  Jagatsingh, Rana

  jagir/jagirdari (see also territory)

  Jain

  Jainism

  Jatmal Nahar

  jauhar (see also sati)

  depictions of

  Jayasi, Malik Muhammad

  jogi (see Nath/Nathpanth)

  Kachhvaha

  kaithi

  Kapur, Nandini Sinha

  katha

  Kaviraj, Sudipta

  Kayasth

  Keshav Bhatt

  Kharatara gacchha

  Khumman

  Khumman Raso

  khyat

  Khyat, Nainsi ri

  kingship

  depictions of

  kshatriya (see also khitrivat)

  Kshirodprasad Vidyavinod

  khitrivat

  kin

  kinship

  and clientship

  expectations from

  politics of

  kul (see also clan)

  Labdodhay

  lay/laity

  libraries

  lineage

  ruling

  monastic

  spiritual

  literati (see also scribes)

  literary history

  literature

  as domain of genres

  Bengali

  Hindi

  national

  vernacular

  love (see also Sufi ishq)

  conjugal

  mystical

  tales of

  triumph of

  loyalty (see also service, sat)

  manhood/masculinity (see also feminine/femininity, heroism)

  mansabdari/mansabdar (see also Mughal aristocracy)

  manuscripts

  and circulation

  patrons for

  variations in

  marriage (see also conjugality)

  colonial shifts, insignificance of

  Mughal-Rajput

  and political alliances

  as political submission

  masnavi

  Mayaram, Shail

  memory

  mendicant

  Metcalf, Thomas

  Mewar

  depictions of

  kingdom of

  Mitra, Rajendralal

  mlecchha

  Mudallil-i Shama-o-Parvana

  Mughal

  administration

  aristocracy

  chroniclers

  empire

  household

  politics, anti-

  Mukherjee, Meenakshi

  Mukhia, Harbans

  Muslim/Muslims

  depiction of

  mystical/mysticism (see also Sufi)

  Nainsi, Muhata

  nakha-shikha varnan

  narrative/narratives

  courtly

  epic

  exemplary

  popular

  romance

  traditions of

  Nath/Nathpanth

  nation/national (see also past, territory)

  nationalism/nationalist

  nationality

  Nawal Kishore Press

  nirgun (see bhakti)

  Nora, Pierre

  Osval (see also Bhama Shah, chiefs, Jain)

  padmini

  category of women

  Padmabati by Alaol

  past

  and contemporary concerns

  as heroic

  narratives of the

  remembered

  Pathak, V.S.

  for narratives

  of poets

  political
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  Peabody, Norbert

  Persian

  chronicles

  language

  literary narratives

  perspective (see also genre)

  anti-Mughal

  bhadralok

  colonial

  Jain

  Rajput

  Sufi

  Petievich, Carla

  Pinch, William

  polygyny

  Pratap, Rana

  print, transition to

  Pritchett, Frances

  Prithviraj Chauhan

  Prithviraj Raso

  private sphere

  Puranas/Puranic

  qissa

  queens

  beautiful

  colonial shifts for

  defense of

  relative autonomy of

  virtuous

  Rajsingh, Rana

  Rajput, Rajputs

  of Avadh

  of Rajasthan

  Ramanujan, A.K.

  Ranchhod Bhatt

  Rao, Velcheru Narayana

  rasa

  raso

  Rathor

  Rawal Ranaji ri Bat

  Ray, R.K.

  Razi, Aqil Khan

  Rebellion

  Sangari, Kumkum

  Sarkar, Sumit

  Sarkar, Tanika

  sat (truth)

  sati

  depictions of

  as immolation of widows

  as virtuous womanhood

  scribes

  Sher Shah

  Sisod Vansavali

  Sisodia

  Skaria, Ajay

  Subrahmanyam, Sanjay

  Sufi/Sufis

  adaptations of the Padmavat

  centers

  dargahs

  doctrine

  initiates

  ishq

  and gender

  khanqahs

  and Naths

  narratives

  pir/pirs

  poets

  and politics

  and patrons

  practices

  and Rajputs

  sama

  and sati

  wilayat

  Sufism

  sultan/sultans

  depictions of

  Sultanate

  Bengal

  Delhi

  Jaunpur

  Malwa

  Sun, Sisodia emblem

  Sur dynasty

  Swadeshi movement

  swamidharma/samidharam

  Talbot, Cynthia

  Taft, Frances

  Tagore, Abanindranath

  Tagore, Jyotirindranath

  Tagore, Rabindranath

  Tarachand Kavadiya

  Tarikh-i Alfi

  territory/territoriality

  Teuscher, Ulrike

  Thapar, Romila

  theater, public

  Tod, James

  Turk/turak

  depictions of

  Udaipur

  Urdu

  Uttar Pradesh

  Vernacular Literature Society

  Wagoner, Phillip

  Yavana

  Zeba, KishanChand

  Ziauddin Barani

  Ziegler, Norman