Aurangzeb in the Perspective of Kachvaha Literature

摘要

The literary and genealogical accounts produced at the Kachvaha court of Jaipur, addressing the relationship between Aurangzeb and the Kachvahas, post-date Aurangzeb. Three of these are introduced, one of them in Sanskrit, two vernacular. While all these writings are informed by archival records, they serve the end of glorifying Kachvaha kingship as it had started visibly defying Mughal authority from the late 1660s. The last of these accounts was written in the middle of the nineteenth century, when Jaipur was a British protectorate, and reflects an attempt to represent the sum total of Kachvaha Rajput ethos and history at the critical point when the Jaipur state was overhauled by administrative reforms.