An edition of Textures of time
(2001)
Textures of time
writing history in South India, 1600-1800
by Vēlcēru Nārāyaṇarāvu
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Publish Date
2001
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Permanent Black,
Distributed by Orient Longman
Language
English
Pages
296
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: Preface x
1 Introduction: A Palette of Histories 1
1. Listening for History
2. Matters of Fact11
3. Letters Traced on Paper 19
2 On the Battle of Bobbili, January 1757 24
1. Introduction: Tiger Town 24
2. B6bbili-yuddha-katha (1): Bussy's Blunders 26
3. Bobbili-yuddha-katha (2): Intersecting Frames 40
4. Playing with Fate: The Pedda Bobbili Raju Katha 42
5. 'This Tragic Ground': Colonial Perspectives on Bobbili 50
6. Ratiga-raya caritramu (1): Prehistory 61
7. Raiiga-raya caritramu (2): 'Why should the Greedy
Think Nobly?' 65
8. ReviewingBobbili 73
9. Excursus: The Padmanabha War, 1794 79
3 Of Karanams and Kings 93
1. Remembering and Recording 93
2. The Kakatiya Retrospective 96
3., Kumara Rama and Polika Rama 100
4, Minister and King: The Raya-vacakamu 115
5. The Too-clever Karanam: On the Tafijavari Andhra
Rajula Caritra 129
6. Conclusion 136
4 Senji,1714 140
1. A Bundela among the Tamils 140
2. On Fame: Two Empirical Essays 146
3. History Transformed: The Desingu Raja Katha 156
4. The Hero's Empty Field 165
5. Teyvika Rajan and the Shatter-Zone State 171
6. Conclusion: On Synchronicity 179
5 Tarikh, Caritra, Bakhar 184
1. Senji Revisited 184
2. Jaswant Rai: A Brahmin from Ghazni writes
Arcot's History 189
3. Jaswant Rai on Tej Singh 200
4. From Arabic to Persian 209
5. From Pawn to Queen: The Rise of the Bakhar 223
6. Karmataka Rajakkal: Flattening the Loops of Time 239
7. Conclusion: The Sphere of Circulation 249
6 Conclusion 252
1. History's Warp and Weft 252
2. Mistaken Identity: Kalhana's Raja-tararigini 254
3. Gangadevi's Pseudo-History 261
4. History from below: Daupti Kaifiyatu 263
Bibliography 271
Index 285.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-283) and index.
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