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Cultural history of medieval India/ edited by Meenakshi Khanna. - New Delhi: Social Science, c2007. - xxxiv, 248 p. ; 23 cm. - Readings in history .

Inttoduction ix
SECTION 1: KINGSHIP AND COURT
MIXING THE CLASSIC WITH THE FOLK
A Kingdom of Clowns: Brahmins, Jesters, and Magicians 3
David Dean Shulman
Popular Jokes and Political History: The Case of Akbar,
Birbal and Mulla Do-Piyaza 24
C. M. Naim
SECTION 2: DEVOTIONALISM
Patikam Patuvar: Ritual Singing as a Means of Communication 47
in Early Medieval South India
R. Champakalakshmi
Popular Shi'ism 72
L R. L Cole
SECTION 3: PERCEIVING CULTURES
Images of Raiders and Rulers 101
Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya
The Articulation of Islamic Space in the Medieval Deccan 126
Richard M. Eatoro
SECTION 4: NEGOTIATING IDENTITIES
Gender Politics and the Urdu Ghazal: Exploratory Observations 145
on Rekhta versus Rekhti
Carla Petievich
The Magic Doe: Desire and Narrafive in a Hindavi Sufi 173
Romance, circa 1503
Aditya Behl
SECTION 5: PAINTING AND MUSIC
SThe Hierarchical Principles of Shah-Jahani Painting 203
Ebba Koch
The Adab of Musicians 237
Brian Silver


ISBN: 9788187358305 (hbk.) 8187358300 (hbk.)

Subjects--Topical Terms:
India Civilization To 1200
India Civilization 1200-1765

Dewey Class. No.: 954.02 / KHA/C