Catherine B Asher

Biographic Data

ID709329
NAMECatherine B Asher
GIVEN NAMESCatherine B
FAMILY NAMEAsher
SIGNATUREASHER C B
AFFILIATIONSTwin Cities Orthopedics
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS13
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR13
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1977
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX0

  • Making Sense of Temples and Tirthas

    Open AccessCatherine B AsherARTICLEThe Medieval History Journal2020References: 5

    This article examines temple construction under Mughal rule by significant Rajput rulers—some reluctant and some amenable—to accepting Mughal authority. During the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries high ranking Hindu nobles who easily found favour with the Mughal court built on both their ancestral lands and on crown lands, but those who accepted Mughal hegemony under duress had a more complicated attitude towards temple construction. The te…

  • Francesca Orsini and Samira Sheikh, editors. After Timur Left

    Catherine B AsherARTICLEThe American Historical Review2016

  • Islamic Art History

    Catherine B AsherARTICLEVerge Studies in Global Asias2015

    A & Q 21 6 Works Cited Bates, Robert H. 1996. “Area Studies and the Discipline.” Comparative Politics, Newsletter of the APSA Organized Section on Comparative Politics 7, no. 1: 1–2. Comaroff, John. 2010. “The End of Anthropology, Again: On the Future of an In/Discipline.” American Anthropologist 112: 524–38. Pollock, Sheldon. 2014. Introduction to World Philology. Edited by Sheldon Pollock et al. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. ———. …

  • Jaipur

    Catherine B AsherARTICLESouth Asia Journal of South Asian…2014

    While Jaipur is commonly envisioned as a bastion for Hindus, this paper argues that the city, founded in 1727 by the Kachhwaha ruler, Sawai Jai Singh II, was intended to serve multiple populations. In many ways, ideologies behind Jaipur's development continue the Mughal emperor Akbar's policy of sulh-i kul, which loosely can be translated as universal toleration. Through an examination of Jaipur's architecture, built between the eighteenth and tw…

  • Shanti Jayewardene-Pillai, Imperial Conversations Indo–Britons and the Architecture of South India (New Delhi

    Open AccessCatherine B AsherARTICLEThe Indian Economic & Social…2010

  • The Sufi Shrines of Shahul Hamid in India and Southeast Asia

    Catherine B AsherARTICLEArtibus Asiae2009

    CATHERINE B. ASHER, THE SUFI SHRINES OF SHAHUL HAMID IN INDIA AND SOUTHEAST ASIA, Artibus Asiae, Vol. 69, No. 2, "To My Mind": Studies in South Asian Art History in Honor of Joanna Gottfried Williams. Part I (2009), pp. 247-258

  • Sur (ii)

    Catherine B AsherCHAPTER2003

  • Indian subcontinent

    Catherine B Asher, Miki Desai et al.CHAPTER2003

  • Tomb

    John R Lenz, Robert Hillenbrand et al.CHAPTER2003

  • Mughal and Rajput Painting, The New Cambridge History of India I.3

    George Michell, Milo Cleveland Beach et al.ARTICLEJournal of the Economic and…1994

  • Architecture of Mughal India

    Ebba Koch, Catherine B AsherARTICLEJournal of the American Oriental…1994

    List of plates General editor's preface Preface List of abbreviations Glossary Map of major pre-Mughal and Mughal sites 1. Precedents for Mughal architecture 2. The beginnings of Mughal architecture 3. The age of Akbar 4. Jahangir: an age of transition 5. Shah Jahan and the crystallization of Mughal style 6. Aurangzeb and the Islamization of the Mughal style 7. Architecture and the struggle for authority under the later Mughals and their successo…

  • A Period of Renaissance

    Romi Khosla, Catherine B AsherARTICLESocial Scientist1992

  • The Mausoleum of Sher Shah Suri

    Catherine B AsherARTICLEArtibus Asiae1977

    Sher Shah Suri (ca. 1486-1545) est le dernier sultan de Delhi a offrir une resistance serieuse a l'avance des Moghols vers le Sud. Il meurt au combat. Son mausolee octogonal de Sasaram a ete edifie par son fils le 16aout 1545, trois mois apres sa mort, au centre d'un lac artificiel. Description du mausolee musulman