03263nam a22003257a 4500 51288 51288 20190617111732.0 190617b ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9781107080317 :Brijwasi Book Distributors :H-87, Lalita Park laxmi Nagar Delhi 110092 :BW/005543 :11/06/19 305.9069 KOT Kothiyal, Tanuja, Nomadic Narratives : a History of Mobility and Identity in the Great Indian Desert / Tanuja Kothiyal Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2016. 312 pages 24cm. 895 Cover; Nomadic Narratives; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Tables; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Glossary; Note on Transliteration, Translation and Dates; Contemporary Place Names and their Nineteenth Century Spellings; Introduction; The Frontiers of Thar; Rajputs in the Frontiers; Indirect Rule and the Frontiers; The Frontiers of Memory; A Note on Sources; Plan of the Book; Chapter 1: Geographical Imagination and Narratives of a Region; Networks of Circulation in the Thar Desert; The (Un)Making of the Thar in the Nineteenth Century Munhata Nainsi's Marwar: Frontiers of Polity and GeographyBoundaries of James Tod's Rajast'han; Chapter 2: Mobility, Polity, Territory; Historicizing Itinerancy: The Itinerant Warriors of the Thar; The 'Long' Sixteenth Century and the Evolution of a 'Rajput' Polity; The Making of the 'Rajput': Genealogy as History/Genealogy as Polity; A 'Mughal' Rajput or a 'Rajput' Mughal?; Post-Mughal Polity and the Rajput on the Frontier; Rajputana Agency: Politics of Indirect Rule and the Making of the Rajput; Chapter 3: Itinerants of the Thar: Mobility and Circulation; The Travelers; Pastoralists Pastoralists and Sedentary CommunitiesTraders and Carriers: The Commerce of Circulation; Itinerant Menial Artisanal Groups; Bardic and Genealogist Communities; Chapter 4: Expanding State Contracting Space: The Thar in the Nineteenth Century; Sedentarisation and Settlement; Fodder, Fallows and Forests; The Ordering of Trading Networks; Roads and Railways: The New Channels; The Question of Salt; The Outlaws; Chapter 5: Narratives of Mobility and Mobility of Narratives; Bardic Narrations: Rajput-Charan Exchanges; Narratives from below: Re-appropriating Pabuji Devnarayan: The Cowherd Warrior/God/KingA Song and its Singers: Dhola-Maru; Conclusions; Nomadic Narratives in the Frontier; Bibliography; Primary Sources; Unpublished documents; Secondary Sources; Appendix-I; Jodhpur King List; Appendix-II; Bikaner King List; Appendix-III; Jaisalmer King List; Index "Discusses the emergence of socio-historical identities in the Thar Desert with the mobility of its inhabitants Social Sciences Groups of people Nomads -- Thar Desert (India and Pakistan) -- History. Migration, Internal -- Thar Desert (India and Pakistan) -- History. Group identity -- Thar Desert (India and Pakistan) -- History. Geography Ecology. Human geography. Social conditions. Asia -- Thar Desert. Kothiyal, Tanuja, BOOK 0 0 ddc 0 1 SNUL SNUL 2019-06-17 Brijwasi Book Distributors 895.00 0 305.9069 KOT 26383 2019-06-17 00:00:00 2019-06-17 BOOK 0 0 ddc 0 0 SNUL SNUL 2025-02-06 International Book Distributors 5502.00 1 305.9069 KOT 30704 2026-02-13 17:37:13 2026-01-08 2025-02-06 BOOK