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
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