Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; A note on transliteration and usage; Introduction; 1. Setting the stage: contextualising fifteenth-century Gujarat; 2. Raṇmallachanda: a warrior imagined; 3. Gangadhara's oeuvre: cosmopolitan poetry for local kings; 4. Rājavinoda: the sultan as Indic king; 5. Rās Mālā: re-discovering a warrior past; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

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A ground breaking study of the long-neglected fifteenth century in South Asian history.

About the Author

Aparna Kapadia teaches History at Williams College, Massachusetts. She writes about the history of Gujarat and Western India, and the cultural and intellectual histories of early modern and modern South Asia. She is the author of several journal articles and co-editor of The Idea of Gujarat: History, Ethnography and Text (2010).