TY - BOOK AU - Aparna Kapadia TI - IN PRAISE OF KINGS: Rajputs, sultans and poets in fifteenth century Gujarat SN - 9781107153318 (hardback) U1 - 954.4 PY - 2018////01/01 CY - New York PB - Cambridge University Press KW - History Of Rajputs, Sultans In India KW - India KW - Gujarat KW - Gujarat (India) KW - History KW - Literatures KW - 1526-1765 N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-175) and index; Setting the stage : contextualizing fifteenth century Gujarat -- RaṇMallachand : a warrior imagined -- Gangadhara's oeuvre : cosmopolitan poetry for local kings -- Rājavinoda : the sultan as an Indic king -- Rās Mālā : re-discovering a warrior past N2 - "Attempts close readings of several narratives that have rarely been used for historical analysis and studies the complex processes that contributed to the formation of Gujarat in the fifteenth century, and how it has subsequently shaped Gujarat's future" ER -