Royal umbrellas of stone : memory, politics, and public identity in Rajput funerary art /

Royal umbrellas of stone : memory, politics, and public identity in Rajput funerary art /

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Author / Creator:	Belli Bose, Melia, author.
Imprint:	Leiden : Brill, [2015]
Description:	xxi, 319 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Brill's Indological library ; volume 48 Brill's Indological library ; v. 48.
Subject:	Rajput (Indic people) -- Social life and customs. Rajput (Indic people) -- Religion. Sepulchral monuments -- India -- Rajasthan -- History. Funeral rites and ceremonies -- India -- Rajasthan -- History. Rajput art -- History. Art and society -- India -- Rajasthan -- History. Memory -- Social aspects -- India -- Rajasthan -- History. Politics and culture -- India -- Rajasthan -- History. Group identity -- India -- Rajasthan -- History. Art and society. Funeral rites and ceremonies. Group identity. Manners and customs. Memory -- Social aspects. Politics and culture. Rajput art. Rajput (Indic people) -- Religion. Rajput (Indic people) -- Social life and customs. Sepulchral monuments. Rajasthan (India) -- Social life and customs. India -- Rajasthan. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10814233

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ISBN:	9789004300545 9004300546 9789004300569
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-316) and index.
Summary:	"In Royal Umbrellas of Stone : Memory, Politics, and Public Identity in Rajput Funerary Art, Melia Belli Bose provides the first analysis of Rajput chatrīs ('umbrellas'; cenotaphs) built between the sixteenth to early-twentieth centuries. New kings constructed chatrīs for their late fathers as statements legitimacy. During periods of political upheaval patrons introduced new forms and decorations to respond to current events and evoke a particular past. Offering detailed analyses of individual cenotaphs and engaging with art historical and epigraphic evidence, as well as ethnography and ritual, this book locates the chatrīs within their original social, political, and religious milieux. It also compares the chatrīs to other Rajput arts to understand how arts of different media targeted specific audiences"--Provided by publisher.

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