Casting Kings Bards and Indian Modernity

Name: Casting Kings Bards and Indian Modernity
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ISBN: 9780195304343

ISBN-10: 0195304349

ISBN-13: 9780195304343

Edition: 2006

Authors: Jeffrey G. Snodgrass

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Based on three years of fieldwork in the Indian state of Rajasthan,Casting Kingsexplores the way in which semi-nomadic performers known as Bhats understand, and also subvert, caste hierarchies. Bhats (literally, "Bards") now entertain a variety of sponsors - village patrons, foreign tourists, urban Rajasthanis, government officials, and development experts - with ballads and puppet plays detailing the exploits of Rajasthan's long-dead kings. In some cases, Bhats suggest that their historical knowledge and poetic skills have been inherited from royal ancestors who sang the praises and kept the genealogies of Rajasthan's former kings and princes. In other contexts, however, Bhats associate…

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List price: $99.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/10/2006
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 9.30" wide x 6.10" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 1.056

Introduction : caste fictions	p. 3
Cast of characters : setting the Rajasthani stage	p. 41
Obscene jesters : Bhambhi "little kings" in the economy of Bhat praise-singing	p. 75
Venture funambulists : composing kings in old and new Rajasthan	p. 109
The enduring power of praise-abuse : Bhat Admen in modern times	p. 143
Conclusion : making history	p. 167
Poem texts	p. 175
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