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Informationen zum Autor Tanuja Kothiyal teaches history at Ambedkar University Delhi, and is also a Fellow at Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi. She is interested in studying networks of circulation, people, resources and ideas in medieval and early modern western Rajasthan. She is also interested in exploring oral narrative traditions in western India, as ways through which alternate/counter-narratives were produced and circulated. Klappentext Nomadic Narratives explores long-term relationships between mobility, martiality, memory and identity in the desert expanses of the Thar. Zusammenfassung Nomadic Narratives looks at the Thar Desert as an historical region shaped through the mobility of its inhabitants. It challenges the frames of Mughal-Rajput relationships that are generally employed to explore the histories of the Thar! and studies long-term relationships between mobility! martiality! memory and identity in the desert expanses. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of tables; List of abbreviations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Glossary; Note on transliteration, translation and dates; Contemporary place names and their nineteenth-century spellings; Introduction; 1. Geographical imagination and narratives of a region; 2. Mobility, polity, territory; 3. Itinerants of the Thar: mobility and circulation; 4. Expanding state contracting space: the Thar in the nineteenth century; 5. Narratives of mobility and mobility of narratives; Conclusions: nomadic narratives in the frontiers; Bibliography; Appendix 1. Jodhpur King list; Appendix 2. Bikaner King list; Appendix 3. Jaisalmer King list; Index.
