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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 March 2016
      14 March 2016
      ISBN:
      9781139946186
      9781107080317
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139946186
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.56kg, 312 Pages
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      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, Social and Cultural Anthropology, South Asian History, Asian Studies, History, Anthropology
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    The Thar Desert, which is today divided by an international boundary, has historically been a frontier region connecting Punjab, Multan, Sindh, Gujarat and Rajasthan. This book looks at the Desert as an historical region shaped through the mobility of its inhabitants - warriors, pastoralists, traders, ascetics and bards, often in overlapping capacities. It challenges the frames of Mughal-Rajput relationships generally employed to explore the histories of the Thar, arguing that Rajputana remains an inadequate category to explore polities located in this frontier region, where along with Rajputs, a range of groups, such as Charans, Bhils, Meenas, Soomras and Pathans controlled circulation, and with whom the Rajput states had to constantly negotiate. Sifting through a wide range of Rajasthani written and oral narratives, travelogues of British administrators, and vernacular as well as English records, the book explores long-term relationships between mobility, martiality, memory and identity in the desert expanses of the Thar.

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