Heroic Pasts in India, c. 1500-1900
by
Ramya Sreenivasan
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
Winner of the 2009 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize, sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies
The medieval Rajput queen Padmini - believed to have been pursued by Alauddin Khalji, the Sultan of Delhi - has been the focus of numerous South Asian narratives, ranging from a Sufi mystical...