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Cultural history of medieval India/ edited by Meenakshi Khanna.

Contributor(s): Khanna, Meenakshi, ed Material type: Text

TextSeries: Readings in historyPublication details: New Delhi: Social Science, c2007Description: xxxiv, 248 p. ; 23 cmISBN: 9788187358305 (hbk.); 8187358300 (hbk.)Subject(s): India Civilization To 1200 | India Civilization 1200-1765DDC classification: 954.02

Contents:

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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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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