Rethinking kingship and authority in South Asia: Amber (Rajasthan), ca. 1560-1615

Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 549-586

  Sreenivasan, Ramya ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Kingship; Man Singh Kachhwaha; Mughal courts; Patronage; Rajputs

Indexed keywords

EID: 84908653022     PISSN: 00224995     EISSN: 15685209     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/15685209-12341358     Document Type: Article

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