In Praise of Kings - Rajputs, Sultans and Poets in Fifteenth-Century Gujarat

A ground breaking study of the long-neglected fifteenth century in South Asian history.

List of contents

Acknowledgements; A note on transliteration and usage; Introduction; 1. Setting the stage: contextualising fifteenth-century Gujarat; 2. Rämallachanda: a warrior imagined; 3. Gangadhara's oeuvre: cosmopolitan poetry for local kings; 4. R¿javinoda: the sultan as Indic king; 5. R¿s M¿l¿: re-discovering a warrior past; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

About the author

Aparna Kapadia teaches History at Williams College, Massachusetts. She writes about the history of Gujarat and Western India, and the cultural and intellectual histories of early modern and modern South Asia. She is the author of several journal articles and co-editor of The Idea of Gujarat: History, Ethnography and Text (2010).

Product details

• Authors: Aparna Kapadia, Aparna (Williams College Kapadia, Kapadia Aparna
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781107153318
• ISBN: 978-1-107-15331-8
• No. of pages: 194
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; India, c 1000 CE to c 1500, 15th century, c 1400 to c 1499, Asian History, Early history: c 500 to c 1450/1500, HISTORY / Asia / South / General