In Praise of Kings: Rajputs, Sultans and Poets in Fifteenth-century Gujarat

Abstract

Contemporary society’s obsession with fixed categories and unwarranted binaries has resulted in numerous unwanted incidents and problematic interpretations of history. It has been observed that common citizens have not only fallen prey to narratives that defy historical logic, they have also been lured by deliberate mischievous insistence on the unchanging character of categories. Professional historians have for long challenged the problematic historicity of the binaries which are in contrast to the fluid and evolutionary character of various categories.