Ramya Sreenivasan
Biographic Data
| ID | 1265202 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ramya Sreenivasan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ramya |
| FAMILY NAME | Sreenivasan |
| SIGNATURE | SREENIVASAN R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Diversity of Women’s Studies and Women’s Histories
This review article is a state of the field review, based on six recent monographs and edited volumes published in the United States, India, and England, all pertaining to women’s studies or women’s history in South Asia
Ruby in the Dust
Ruby in the Dust: Poetry and History in Padmāvat by the South Asian Sufi Poet Muḥammad Jāyasī. By Thomas de Bruijn. Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2012. Pp. 371. [American ed., 2013. Dist. by University of Chicago Press
The Oxford Handbook of the Mughal World
This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title w…
The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen
Winner of the 2009 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize, sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies The medieval Rajput queen Padmini - believed to have been pursued by Alauddin Khalji, the Sultan of Delhi - has been the focus of numerous South Asian narratives, ranging from a Sufi mystical romance in the sixteenth century to nationalist histories in the late nineteenth century. The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen explores how early modern reg…
Warrior-tales at Hinterland Courts in North India, c. 1370–1550
Rethinking Kingship and Authority in South Asia
The literature on South Asian kingship has typically explored the idioms in which kingship—a king’s assertion of his right to rule—was articulated, while assuming ready consent to such assertions of royal authority among a king’s subjects, vassals, peers, and overlords. This paper re-examines the nature and limits of South Asian kingship by investigating the modes in which Man Singh Kachhwaha, a prominent regional chief in the Mughal Empire, clai…
A South Asianist's Response to Lieberman's Strange Parallels
In this response to Victor Lieberman's Strange Parallels: Southeast Asia in Global Context, c. 800–1830 , I provide an outline of some significant trends in the historiography of early modern South Asia as it has evolved in the last decade or so. Both the period and the themes reviewed here reflect my own research interests. While Lieberman cites much of the research that I describe here in his chapter on South Asia in Strange Parallels , my read…
The 'Marriage' of 'Hindu' and 'Turak
This essay reads two medieval Rajput accounts of the conquest of Jalor by the Sultan of Delhi, Alauddin Khalji—Padmanabha's Kanhadde Pra bandh, composed circa 1455 and the account in Muhata Nainsi's Khyat, composed circa 1660—to uncover the changing memory of the fall of Jalor in medieval Rajput courts. Both accounts reveal the pressures of their patronage contexts, as they shape interpretations of the loss of Jalor to the Sultan. Such compulsion…
Alauddin Khalji Remembered
The 'Marriage' of 'Hindu' and 'Turak
This essay reads two medieval Rajput accounts of the conquest of Jalor by the Sultan of Delhi, Alauddin Khalji—Padmanabha's Kanhadde Pra bandh, composed circa 1455 and the account in Muhata Nainsi's Khyat, composed circa 1660—to uncover the changing memory of the fall of Jalor in medieval Rajput courts. Both accounts reveal the pressures of their patronage contexts, as they shape interpretations of the loss of Jalor to the Sultan. Such compulsion…
Rethinking Kingship and Authority in South Asia
The literature on South Asian kingship has typically explored the idioms in which kingship—a king’s assertion of his right to rule—was articulated, while assuming ready consent to such assertions of royal authority among a king’s subjects, vassals, peers, and overlords. This paper re-examines the nature and limits of South Asian kingship by investigating the modes in which Man Singh Kachhwaha, a prominent regional chief in the Mughal Empire, clai…
The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen
Winner of the 2009 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize, sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies The medieval Rajput queen Padmini - believed to have been pursued by Alauddin Khalji, the Sultan of Delhi - has been the focus of numerous South Asian narratives, ranging from a Sufi mystical romance in the sixteenth century to nationalist histories in the late nineteenth century. The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen explores how early modern reg…
Alauddin Khalji Remembered
The 'Marriage' of 'Hindu' and 'Turak
This essay reads two medieval Rajput accounts of the conquest of Jalor by the Sultan of Delhi, Alauddin Khalji—Padmanabha's Kanhadde Pra bandh, composed circa 1455 and the account in Muhata Nainsi's Khyat, composed circa 1660—to uncover the changing memory of the fall of Jalor in medieval Rajput courts. Both accounts reveal the pressures of their patronage contexts, as they shape interpretations of the loss of Jalor to the Sultan. Such compulsion…
A South Asianist's Response to Lieberman's Strange Parallels
In this response to Victor Lieberman's Strange Parallels: Southeast Asia in Global Context, c. 800–1830 , I provide an outline of some significant trends in the historiography of early modern South Asia as it has evolved in the last decade or so. Both the period and the themes reviewed here reflect my own research interests. While Lieberman cites much of the research that I describe here in his chapter on South Asia in Strange Parallels , my read…
Warrior-tales at Hinterland Courts in North India, c. 1370–1550
Rethinking Kingship and Authority in South Asia
The literature on South Asian kingship has typically explored the idioms in which kingship—a king’s assertion of his right to rule—was articulated, while assuming ready consent to such assertions of royal authority among a king’s subjects, vassals, peers, and overlords. This paper re-examines the nature and limits of South Asian kingship by investigating the modes in which Man Singh Kachhwaha, a prominent regional chief in the Mughal Empire, clai…
The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen
Winner of the 2009 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize, sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies The medieval Rajput queen Padmini - believed to have been pursued by Alauddin Khalji, the Sultan of Delhi - has been the focus of numerous South Asian narratives, ranging from a Sufi mystical romance in the sixteenth century to nationalist histories in the late nineteenth century. The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen explores how early modern reg…
The Oxford Handbook of the Mughal World
This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title w…
The Diversity of Women’s Studies and Women’s Histories
This review article is a state of the field review, based on six recent monographs and edited volumes published in the United States, India, and England, all pertaining to women’s studies or women’s history in South Asia
Ruby in the Dust
Ruby in the Dust: Poetry and History in Padmāvat by the South Asian Sufi Poet Muḥammad Jāyasī. By Thomas de Bruijn. Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2012. Pp. 371. [American ed., 2013. Dist. by University of Chicago Press
History (7 works) · Ancient history (5 works) · Asian Studies and History (4 works) · History (4 works) · South Asian Studies and Conflicts (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Indian and Buddhist Studies (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works)