Search Results - "Rajasthan"

The Mertiyo Rathors of Merto, Rajasthan : Select Translations Bearing on the History of a Rajput Family, 1462–1660, Volumes 1–2 /

Subjects: “…Rajput (Indic people) India Rajasthan History.…”
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The Hegemony of Heritage : Ritual and the Record in Stone / by Stein, Deborah L., 1975-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the Hindu Temple in diachronic context -- Temple as geographic marker : mapping the tenth-century Sectarian landscape -- Temple as catalyst : renovation and religious merit in the field -- Temple as royal abode : the regal, the real, and the ideal in fifteenth-century Mewr -- Temple as palimpsest : icons and temples in the Sultanate era -- Temple as ritual center : tenth-century traces of ritual and the record in stone -- Temple as praxis : agency in the field in Southern Rajasthan -- Temple as legal body : aesthetics and the legislation of antiquity -- Conclusion heritage and conflict : Medieval Indian Temple as commodified.…”
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Borderland Lives in Northern South Asia /

Table of Contents: “…Gellner -- Borders without borderlands : on the social reproduction of state demarcation in Rajasthan / Anastasia Piliavsky -- Allegiance and alienation : border dynamics in Kargil / Radhika Gupta -- Naturalizing the Himalaya-as-border in Uttarakhand / Nayanika Mathur -- On the way to India : Nepali rituals of border crossing / Sondra L. …”
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