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.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Transliteration
  • Chronological Chart of Rajput and Other Dynasties
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction: Rajputs and Their Royal Umbrellas
  • An Indic Iconography of Extraordinariness: Umbrellas in South Asian Art
  • The King Is Dead, Long Live the King! "Invented Tradition" and Memorialization in North Indian Kingship
  • Origins of the Chatri
  • The Commemorated: Public Ancestors and the Deified Deceased
  • Rituals: The Chatri as Politically Charged Performative Space
  • Sources and Structure of the Book
  • 1. Interrupted Continuities: The Chatris of the Kachhwaha Rajputs of Amber and Jaipur
  • Building a Kachhawaha Paradigm: Raja Man Singh
  • Sibling Rivalry and Contested Authority: Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh II's Chatri in Jaipur
  • The Temple-Chatri of Ishwari Singh, the Suicide King
  • A Triumphal Homecoming: The Frieze Program on Maharaja Sawai Madho Singh II's Chatri
  • Anonymous Memorialization: The Chatris of the Kachhwaha Queens
  • Conclusion
  • 2. Keeping Up with the Kachhwahas: The Chatris of the Narukas of Alwar, the Dadu Panthis, and the Shekhawati Merchants
  • The Chatris of the Narukas of Alwar
  • The Chatri as a Legitimizer of Sacred Authority: Memorializing the Dadu Panthis
  • Shardul Singh and the Pañch Panna System in Jhunjhunu, Shekhawati
  • Memorializing the Nouveaux Riches: Baniya Chatris in Shekhawati
  • Conclusion
  • 3. A Deceptive Message of Resistance: Nostalgia and the Early Jodha Rathores' Renaissant Devals
  • The Pratihara Paradigm
  • Raja Udai Singh's "Two Hats": Politics and Memorialization at Mandore
  • The Mandore Devals and Marwari Public Pitrs
  • Parallels in Seventeenth-Century Marwari Painting
  • Conclusion
  • 4. Shifting Allegiances, Shifting Styles: Later Jodha Rathore Memorials
  • Maharaja Ajit Singh, the Sisodia Past, and the Maru-Gurjara-Renaissant-Style Devals at Mandore
  • Same Message, Different Media: Ajit Singh's Other Commissions
  • Mixed Messages: Art and Politics under Maharaja Abhai Singh
  • Man Singh, the Naths, and the Maharaja's Thara
  • Jaswant Thara: The "Taj of Jodhpur" and the Memorialized Jodha Rathores under the Raj
  • Conclusion
  • 5. Devi Kund Sagar: The Iconography of Sati and Its Absence in Bikaner's Chatris
  • The Mughal Model
  • Gendered Paradigms in Bika Rathore Funerary Art
  • The Iconography of Eternal Union
  • Lakshminath's Divine Darbar
  • Monuments, Memorials, and the Politics of Restoration under Maharaja Ganga Singh
  • Conclusion
  • 6. Eklingji's Divine Darbar: The Sisodia Chatris of Mewar
  • The Art of Propaganda: The Sisodias' Invented Tradition of Resistance
  • Eldingji and Sisodia Political Legitimacy
  • Eklingji's Eternal Divans at Mahasatiya
  • Conclusion
  • 7. Conclusion: Beyond Rajasthan
  • Memorializing Marathas in Their New Capitals
  • Claiming Sikh Space in Lahore: Maharaja Ranjit Singh's Samadhi
  • The Living Chatri Tradition
  • Glossary
  • Bibliography
  • Index
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