dharti ka veer yodha prithviraj chauhan episode 159

Cynthia Talbot is Associate Professor of History and Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. The Last Hindu Emperor sheds new light on the enduring importance of heroic histories in Indian culture and the extraordinary ability of historical memory to transform the hero of a clan into the hero of a community, and ﬁnally a nation. Despite being overthrown, however, his name and story have evolved over time into a historical symbol of India’s martial valor. In modern times, the Chauhan King has been referred to as “the last Hindu emperor,” because Muslim rule prevailed for centuries following his defeat. Surveying a wealth of narratives that span more than 800 years, Cynthia Talbot explores the reasons why he is remembered and by whom. This fascinating new study traces traditions and memories relating to the twelfth-century Indian ruler Prithviraj Chauhan: a Hindu King who was defeated and overthrown during the conquest of Northern India by Muslim armies from Afghanistan. Retellings of Prithviraj's story in colonial modernityĪppendix: Prdotthvīrāj Rāso’s textual history In defense of tradition: Pandya's rebuttal Introduction: debating the Rāso's historicity Introduction: James Tod and the last Hindu emperorįrom bardic to colonial knowledge with Todħ Contested meanings in a nationalist age, 1880s-1940s Violence and the rhetoric of political allegianceĦ Validating Prdotthvīrāj Rāso in colonial India, 1820s-1870s Introduction: redacting Prdotthvīrāj Rāsoīuilding fame in seventeenth-century Mewar Introduction: regional rivalries in Prdotthvīrāj Rāsoĥ Imagining the Rajput past in Mughal-era Mewar The draw of Delhi across the Indic/Persian divideįrom Tomar to Chauhan rule in Delhi inscriptionsĤ The heroic vision of an elite regional epic Introduction: telling the Rāso in Persian Thirteenth-century Indo-Persian perspectivesģ Delhi in the making of the last Hindu emperor Seeing Prithviraj through contemporary sources Geopolitical setting of an age of conflict Embedded strata: Prdotthvīrāj Rāso and James TodĢ Literary trajectories of the historic king

Dharti ka veer yodha prithviraj chauhan episode 159