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Books from this LUP series can be ordered through The large majority of Leiden dissertations from 2005 onwards is available digitally on l u p d i s s e rtat i o n s The dissertations will become available both in printed and in digital versions. This series affords an opportunity to those who have recently obtained their doctorate to publish the results of their doctoral research so as to ensure a wide distribution among colleagues and the interested public. In 2006 Leiden University has initiated a series Leiden Dissertations at Leiden University Press. Janet Kamphorst is a literary historian specialized in the study of South Asia. History a n d Poetry i n M edieva l M a rwa r (Sou th Asi a) This study of heroic and epic “war poetry” Also part of this study is an introduction to the history and prosody of medieval Dimgal, a specialized Rajasthani poetic idiom, as well as a full academic transliteration of the selected medieval and contemporary poems. Employing historical, literary and socio-linguistic approaches to shed light on the form and content of medieval poetry dedicated to Pabuji, this multi-disciplinary study sets forth the relation between Rajasthan’s warlike history, the politico-military purpose of its poetry and the religiously inspired ideal of self sacrifice in battle.

The author, who undertook three years of archival and anthropological research in western Rajasthan, offers an interpretation of Pabuji’s world that allows us to look afresh at the narrative process of deification and the related construction of sociopolitical and religious identities in South Asia. Transmitted by the poets of pastoral-nomadic communities in medieval Marwar (Rajasthan) evokes the lived past of the Rajput, Bhil and Charan of the Marwari desert with a detailed analysis of poetic sources concerning Pabuji, a fourteenth-century warrior and present-day Hindu god.

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