Royal Umbrellas of Stone: Memory, Politics, and Public Identity in Rajput Funerary Art
Published on 27. August 2015
Book
Hardback
342 pages
978-90-04-30054-5 (ISBN)
Description
In Royal Umbrellas of Stone: Memory, Politics, and Public Identity in Rajput Funerary Art, Melia Belli Bose provides the first analysis of Rajput chatris ("umbrellas"; cenotaphs) built between the sixteenth to early-twentieth centuries. New kings constructed chatris for their late fathers as statements of legitimacy. During periods of political upheaval patrons introduced new forms and decorations to respond to current events and evoke a particular past. Offering detailed analyses of individual cenotaphs and engaging with art historical and epigraphic evidence, as well as ethnography and ritual, this book locates the chatris within their original social, political, and religious milieux. It also compares the chatris to other Rajput arts to understand how arts of different media targeted specific audiences.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
All interested in the princely states, Rajasthani art and architecture, Indian kingship, memorialization, anthropologists, historians, historians of religion, and those interested in Indian conservation heritage.
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 241 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
680 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-30054-5 (9789004300545)
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Melia Belli Bose, Ph.D. (2009), University of California, Los Angeles, is Assistant Professor of Asian Art History at the University of Texas at Arlington. Her edited volume, Women, Gender, and Art in Asia is forthcoming with Ashgate.