Ramya Sreenivasan's The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen, published by the University of Washington Press in 2007, is a scholarly study tracing how the Padmini narrative, the legendary Rajput queen, was refashioned by successive regional elites, caste groups and monastic communities in India between roughly 1500 and 1900. Its strength is that it is a peer-reviewed academic monograph treating the legend explicitly as a legend with a documented history of retelling, rather than adjudicating whether Padmini was a historical figure. Its limit is that its close focus is the narrative's reception history specifically, so a claim needing an assessment of Padmini's historicity itself needs a source addressing that separate question.
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Published by the University of Washington Press as Ramya Sreenivasan's scholarly study, peer reviewed university press scholarship. NotesTraces how the Padmini narrative was refashioned by successive regional elites, caste groups and monastic communities between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries. The standing scholarly treatment of the legend as a legend.
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AuthorRamya Sreenivasan
PublisherUniversity of Washington Press
Publication Year2007
Source Typeacademic monograph
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This source names India directly: "groups and monastic communities in India between roughly 1500 and 1900."
Claims Backed By This Source (31 claims)
This source backs 31 claims across the atlas. As facts: 23 well-attested. As cited relationships: 4 holds, 1 connected. Plus 3 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Myths & Sacred Narratives, 9 claims: 5 well-attested, 3 holds, 1 general references.
- Figures, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Articles, 6 claims: 4 well-attested, 1 connected, 1 general references.
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23Myths & Sacred Narratives
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4Myths & Sacred Narratives
General References
3Myths & Sacred Narratives
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