use of Puranas
Bhagchand
Bhagyavijay
Bhakti
Bhama Shah
bhandar (see libraries)
Bhat (see also genealogists, Charan)
Bhattacharya, Rimli
Bhattacharya, Tithi
Binodini Dasi
Blackburn, Stuart
Braj/Brajbhasha
canon, literary
Chakrabarti, Barun
chakri/chakar (see also grants, service)
Charan
charit/charitra
Chatterjee, Kumkum
Chatterjee, Partha
Chattopadhyay, B.D.
chiefs
depictions of
Rajput
Chishti (see also Sufi/Sufis)
Chitor
as Chitaur
political significance of
Chitor Udaipur Patnama
Chittagong
chronicles (see also khyat and courts)
Mughal
Persian
Rajput
circulation
of historical traditions
and manuscripts
of narratives
networks of
clan (see also kin, kul)
clients (see also patrons, chiefs)
colonial
administration
changes
in elite marriage
in historical method
in literary narratives
in literary patronage
in policy
in society
continuities
historiography
institutions
intellectuals
knowledge
middle class
politics
conjugality
companionate (see also marriage)
conventions (see also decorum, narrative)
narrative
socio-political
courts
courtliness
Dalmia, Vasudha
Dalpati Vijay
Das, S.K.
dastan
De Bruijn, Thomas
decorum
aesthetic
socio-political
drama (see also public theater)
Dramatic Performances Act (1876)
East India Company
Eaton, Richard M.
elite/elites
courtly
imperial
military
merchant
polygyny
regional
and regulation of women
ruling
upper-caste
women
enemy (see also turak, mlecchha)
erotics (see also nakha-shikha varnan)
feminine/femininity (see also gender)
Fisher, Michael
gacchha
gaze (see also decorum)
gender
norms of
relations
genealogists
genealogy (vanshavali)
and descent
and legitimacy
and patrons
as source
genre/genres
historical mutations of
as literary conventions
social contexts of
Gommans, Jos
Gorakhnath (see also Nath/Nathpanth)
grants
and expectations
and kinship
and patron-client relations
of rights to revenue (see also jagir/jagirdari, chakri)
recording of
Guha, Sumit
Guha-Thakurta, Tapati
Guhila
Gyanchand/Gyanchandra
Hansen, Kathryn
Haqaiq-i Hindi
Harlan, Lindsay
Hasan, Hafiz Khalil Manikpuri
Hemratan
heroism
as inherited
Hindu (see also turak, Muslim)
historical narratives
historical novels
historiography
history
discipline of
and memory
honor
Ibrat, Ziauddin Ghulam Ali (see Ishrat)
Ilbert Bill (1885)
Indic (see also Islamicate)
Ishrat, Ghulam Ali
Islam
Islamicate
itihasa
Jagatsingh, Rana
jagir/jagirdari (see also territory)
Jain
Jainism
Jatmal Nahar
jauhar (see also sati)
depictions of
Jayasi, Malik Muhammad
jogi (see Nath/Nathpanth)
Kachhvaha
kaithi
Kapur, Nandini Sinha
katha
Kaviraj, Sudipta
Kayasth
Keshav Bhatt
Kharatara gacchha
Khumman
Khumman Raso
khyat
Khyat, Nainsi ri
kingship
depictions of
kshatriya (see also khitrivat)
Kshirodprasad Vidyavinod
khitrivat
kin
kinship
and clientship
expectations from
politics of
kul (see also clan)
Labdodhay
lay/laity
libraries
lineage
ruling
monastic
spiritual
literati (see also scribes)
literary history
literature
as domain of genres
Bengali
Hindi
national
vernacular
love (see also Sufi ishq)
conjugal
mystical
tales of
triumph of
loyalty (see also service, sat)
manhood/masculinity (see also feminine/femininity, heroism)
mansabdari/mansabdar (see also Mughal aristocracy)
manuscripts
and circulation
patrons for
variations in
marriage (see also conjugality)
colonial shifts, insignificance of
Mughal-Rajput
and political alliances
as political submission
masnavi
Mayaram, Shail
memory
mendicant
Metcalf, Thomas
Mewar
depictions of
kingdom of
Mitra, Rajendralal
mlecchha
Mudallil-i Shama-o-Parvana
Mughal
administration
aristocracy
chroniclers
empire
household
politics, anti-
Mukherjee, Meenakshi
Mukhia, Harbans
Muslim/Muslims
depiction of
mystical/mysticism (see also Sufi)
Nainsi, Muhata
nakha-shikha varnan
narrative/narratives
courtly
epic
exemplary
popular
romance
traditions of
Nath/Nathpanth
nation/national (see also past, territory)
nationalism/nationalist
nationality
Nawal Kishore Press
nirgun (see bhakti)
Nora, Pierre
Osval (see also Bhama Shah, chiefs, Jain)
padmini
category of women
Padmabati by Alaol
past
and contemporary concerns
as heroic
narratives of the
remembered
Pathak, V.S.
for narratives
of poets
political
<
br /> of Sufis
Peabody, Norbert
Persian
chronicles
language
literary narratives
perspective (see also genre)
anti-Mughal
bhadralok
colonial
Jain
Rajput
Sufi
Petievich, Carla
Pinch, William
polygyny
Pratap, Rana
print, transition to
Pritchett, Frances
Prithviraj Chauhan
Prithviraj Raso
private sphere
Puranas/Puranic
qissa
queens
beautiful
colonial shifts for
defense of
relative autonomy of
virtuous
Rajsingh, Rana
Rajput, Rajputs
of Avadh
of Rajasthan
Ramanujan, A.K.
Ranchhod Bhatt
Rao, Velcheru Narayana
rasa
raso
Rathor
Rawal Ranaji ri Bat
Ray, R.K.
Razi, Aqil Khan
Rebellion
Sangari, Kumkum
Sarkar, Sumit
Sarkar, Tanika
sat (truth)
sati
depictions of
as immolation of widows
as virtuous womanhood
scribes
Sher Shah
Sisod Vansavali
Sisodia
Skaria, Ajay
Subrahmanyam, Sanjay
Sufi/Sufis
adaptations of the Padmavat
centers
dargahs
doctrine
initiates
ishq
and gender
khanqahs
and Naths
narratives
pir/pirs
poets
and politics
and patrons
practices
and Rajputs
sama
and sati
wilayat
Sufism
sultan/sultans
depictions of
Sultanate
Bengal
Delhi
Jaunpur
Malwa
Sun, Sisodia emblem
Sur dynasty
Swadeshi movement
swamidharma/samidharam
Talbot, Cynthia
Taft, Frances
Tagore, Abanindranath
Tagore, Jyotirindranath
Tagore, Rabindranath
Tarachand Kavadiya
Tarikh-i Alfi
territory/territoriality
Teuscher, Ulrike
Thapar, Romila
theater, public
Tod, James
Turk/turak
depictions of
Udaipur
Urdu
Uttar Pradesh
Vernacular Literature Society
Wagoner, Phillip
Yavana
Zeba, KishanChand
Ziauddin Barani
Ziegler, Norman
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