The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen: Heroic Pasts in India, c. 1500-1900Winner of the 2009 Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Book Prize, sponsored by the Association for Asian Studies The medieval Rajput queen Padmini believed to have been pursued by Alauddin Khalji, the Sultan of Delhi has been the focus of numerous South Asian narratives, ranging from a Sufi mystical romance in the sixteenth century to nationalist histories in the late nineteenth century. The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen explores how early modern regional