TY - BOOK AU - TALBOT,Cynthia TI - The Last Hindu Emperor : : Prithviraj Chauhan and the Indian Past, 1200-2000 / SN - 9781108711715 (pbk.) U1 - 954.40223092 PY - 2016/// CY - New Delhi, India : PB - Cambridge University Press, KW - Pr̥thvīrāja, KW - Emperors KW - India KW - Biography KW - HIndus KW - Heroes KW - Historiography KW - Political aspects KW - Memory KW - Public opinion KW - Kings and rulers N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-311) and index; Introduction: Layers of memory -- 2. Literary trajectories of the historic king -- 3. Delhi in the making of the last Hindu emperor -- 4. The heroic vision of a regional elite -- 5. Imagining the Rajput past in Mughal-era Mewar -- 6. Validating Prithvīrāj Rāso in colonial India, 1820s-70s -- 7. Contested meanings in a nationalist age, 1880s-1940s -- 8. Epilogue: The postcolonial Prithviraj -- Appendix: Prithvīrāj Rāso's textual history ER -