Lineage, Power and Perception: Comparison of the Royal Chambā Genealogy with Contemporary Epigraphs, 800–1650 CE
This paper deconstructs the royal genealogy (vaṃśāvalī) of Chambā, a western Himalayan kingdom in present-day Himachal Pradesh, and compares it with other such attempts to recast and/or reassert the dynastic lineage in the contemporary epigraphs issued over a period of eight hundred years. My assump...
| Published in: | Religions of South Asia |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Equinox
2011
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Religions of South Asia
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| Further subjects: | B
Legitimation
B Symbols B vaṃśāvalī B core area B Hegemony B Sanskritization B epigraphs B Chambā B consent to rule B Periphery |
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