| 词条 | Ramya Sreenivasan |
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| honorific_prefix = | name = Ramya Sreenivasan | honorific_suffix = | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image = | image_size = | image_upright = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates = | other_names = | pronounce = | residence = | citizenship = | nationality = Indian | fields = Early modern Indian history | workplaces = University of Pennsylvania | patrons = | education = | alma_mater = University of Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru University | thesis_title = Gender, Literature, History: The Transformation of the Padmini Story | thesis_url = | thesis_year = 2002 | doctoral_advisor = | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | influences = | influenced = | awards = Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Prize (2009) | author_abbrev_bot = | author_abbrev_zoo = | spouse = | partner = | children = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = | footnotes = }} Ramya Sreenivasan (born 1966) is an Indian scholar of early modern Indian history. She is an associate professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania. Best known for her book The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen, she is a winner of the Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Prize. BiographyRamya Sreenivasan obtained her undergraduate degree in English in 1988, followed by a master's degree two years later, both from the University of Delhi. In 2002, she received a doctorate in English from the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi.[1] Her dissertation was titled Gender, Literature, History: The Transformation of the Padmini Story.[2] CareerBetween 1991 and 1998, Sreenivasan was a lecturer in the Department of English at Miranda House, University of Delhi.[3] Sreenivasan was a visiting lecturer of history at the University of Washington, Seattle, and Kenyon College, Ohio, between 2003 and 2004. She then joined the State University of New York, Buffalo, as a visiting associate professor of history.[1] ResearchFor her doctoral thesis, Sreenivasan researched the historicity and legend of Rani Padmini. A supposed 14th century queen of the Rajput kingdom of Chittor – it is not clear if she ever existed[4] – she had committed jauhar rather than be captured by the invading Alauddin Khalji, the Sultan of Delhi. Padmini stood for the Rajput ideal of self-sacrificing bravery, mythologised for preferring death to capture by a Muslim. The earliest references to Padmini, however, come from two hundred years after her putative existence, in a poem called Padmavat. Sreenivasan showed that this work, along with other transmissions and translations of other texts, worked to establish a communal or national identity. For Rajputs, in other words, Padmini has achieved a reality to encompass their idea of their own historic valour.[5] More prosaically, Alauddin reorganised the revenue systems in his sultanate, thereby ruining the fortunes of intermediaries who were previously responsible for the collection of tax. Sreenivasan showed that several of these intermediaries belonged to social groups that would later be called Rajputs. Combining the loss of their finances with their defeats at the hands of invaders, the Rajputs took recourse to epic poetry to establish a sense of pride.[6] From 2005, Sreenivasan investigated the lives of women and children servants among elite Rajput clans between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries, as part of a collaborative research project on South Asian slavery.[1] Sreenivasan showed that slavery among Rajputs comprised not only Indian but also African female slaves. These were exchanged as dowries in a competitive display of wealth, not only to promote interstate alliances but also to elevate the prestige of households.[7] Sreenivasan noted that on the one hand, there was little documentation of slavery, especially of women, in keeping with the Rajputs' notions of female respectability; on the other, for Rajput honour, it was important to play down potentially suspect low-born origins. Thus, unless a slave woman became powerful or committed sati, she was invisible in the records (mainly epic song). Furthermore, contrary to Western distinctions of slavery and family, the boundaries between clan and lineage were fluid, and modified by histories of slavery. Freed slaves could rewrite their pasts to support clan memberships, while illegitimate offspring of Rajputs with lower-caste women would become slaves in turn.[8] Selected worksArticles
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AwardsSreenivasan's The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen won the Ananda Kentish Coomaraswamy Prize in 2009.[9] References1. ^1 2 {{cite journal|journal=UB Reporter|volume=36|number=32|author=Irene Liguori|title=Interest in South Asian history grows|url=http://www.buffalo.edu/ubreporter/archive/vol36/vol36n32/articles/Sreenivasan.html|date=5 May 2005|accessdate=29 October 2017}} {{Authority control}}{{DEFAULTSORT:Sreenivasan, Ramya}}2. ^{{cite book|author=Aditya Behl|title=Love's Subtle Magic: An Indian Islamic Literary Tradition, 1379-1545|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HR6hDQAAQBAJ&pg=PT471|year=2016|publisher=Oxford University|isbn=978-0-19-062882-6|page=471}} 3. ^{{cite web|publisher=Miranda House|title=Former Staff|url=http://mirandahouse.ac.in/thecollege/historicalperspective/formerstaff.php|accessdate=9 November 2017}} 4. ^{{cite book|author=Cynthia Talbot|title=The Last Hindu Emperor: Prithviraj Cauhan and the Indian Past, 1200–2000|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m3DjCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA24|year=2015|publisher=Cambridge University|isbn=978-1-107-11856-0|page=24}} 5. ^{{cite news|newspaper=Scroll.in|url=https://scroll.in/article/827966/persistence-of-memory-never-mind-history-padmavati-is-as-real-for-rajputs-as-their-famed-valour|title=Persistence of memory: Never mind history, Padmavati is as real for Rajputs as their famed valour|author=Tanuja Kothiyal|date=29 January 2017|accessdate=2 December 2017}} 6. ^{{cite news|url=https://scroll.in/article/854706/ala-ud-din-khalji-why-the-peoples-king-was-made-out-to-be-a-monster-by-16th-century-chroniclers|title=Ala-ud-din Khalji: Why the ‘people’s king’ was made out to be a monster by 16th century chroniclers|author=Ruchika Sharma|date=29 October 2017|newspaper=Scroll.in|accessdate=2 December 2017}} 7. ^{{cite book|author=Pedro Machado|title=Ocean of Trade|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ODfJBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA257|date=6 November 2014|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1-107-07026-4|page=257}} 8. ^{{cite book|title=Slavery, Abolitionism and Empire in India, 1772-1843|author=Andrea Major|pages=22-24|year=2012|publisher=Liverpool University|isbn=978-1781388426}} 9. ^{{cite web|publisher=University of Washington Press|url=http://www.washington.edu/uwpress/search/books/SREMAC.html|title=The Many Lives of a Rajput Queen|accessdate=9 November 2017}} 6 : Living people|21st-century Indian historians|1966 births|University of Delhi alumni|University of Pennsylvania faculty|Jawaharlal Nehru University alumni |
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