TY  - BOOK
AU  - Khanna, Meenakshi, ed.
TI  - Cultural history of medieval India
SN  - 9788187358305 (hbk.)
U1  - 954.02 
PY  - 2007///
CY  - New Delhi
PB  - Social Science
KW  - India Civilization To 1200
KW  - India Civilization 1200-1765
N1  - 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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