Portrait of a Raja in a Badshah's world: Amrit Rai's biography of Man Singh (1585)

Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient

Volumn 55, Issue 2-3, 2012, Pages 287-328

  Busch, Allison ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Akbar; Amber; Hindi literature; Jaipur; Man Singh Kachhwaha; Mughal empire; Rajputs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867344188     PISSN: 00224995     EISSN: 15685209     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/15685209-12341237     Document Type: Review

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