{"id":8814,"date":"2022-07-06T19:32:48","date_gmt":"2022-07-06T19:32:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/?p=8814"},"modified":"2022-07-06T19:32:48","modified_gmt":"2022-07-06T19:32:48","slug":"alumni-highlight-dr-elizabeth-thelen-publishes-new-book-on-history-of-urban-rajasthan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/news\/alumni-highlight-dr-elizabeth-thelen-publishes-new-book-on-history-of-urban-rajasthan\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Highlight: Dr. Elizabeth Thelen Publishes New Book on History of Urban Rajasthan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">We are proud to celebrate another remarkable alumni accomplishment. Dr. Elizabeth Thelen is a 2006 graduate of UW with an Honor\u2019s Thesis (BA) in Hindi from the department of Asian Languages and Literature.<\/p>\n<p data-pm-slice=\"1 1 []\">Dr. Thelen has recently published her book <em>Urban Histories of Rajasthan: Religion, Politics and Society (1550-1800).\u00a0<\/em>This volume is the latest in the British Institute of Persian Studies&#8217; series\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bips.ac.uk\/persian-studies-series\/\">Studies in the History and Culture of the Persianate World<\/a>. The text focuses primarily on Nagaur and Ajmer, and examines how\u00a0religious and caste communities lived together and negotiated shared spaces, and the impact of changing political and economic situations on these communities.<em>\u00a0<\/em>The book may be purchased through the publisher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gingko.org.uk\/title\/urban-histories-of-rajasthan\/\">Gingko Library<\/a> or distributor <a href=\"https:\/\/press.uchicago.edu\/ucp\/books\/book\/distributed\/U\/bo184795723.html\">UCP University of Chicago Press<\/a>; a 30% discount is available using discount code <strong>UHR30<\/strong> on both sites.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, this spring marks the official launch of the online primary source collection Dr Thelen co-edited during her time as a postdoctoral research associate in the History Department at the University of Exeter: <a class=\"ProsemirrorEditor-link\" href=\"http:\/\/lawforms.exeter.ac.uk\/\">lawforms.exeter.ac.uk<\/a>. It features transcriptions and translations of 79 documents, accompanied by high-resolution images, in Persian, Hindi, Rajasthani, and Marathi. The collection also houses a number of teaching resources, such as introductory historical essays.<\/p>\n<p>We are so proud of Elizabeth, way to go!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_8815\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 683px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8815 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/07\/Thelen-Early-Histories-of-Rajasthan-683x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"A book cover of &quot;Urban Histories of Rajasthan: Religion, Politics and Society (1550-1800)&quot; by Elizabeth Thelen. The \" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/07\/Thelen-Early-Histories-of-Rajasthan-683x1024.jpeg 683w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/07\/Thelen-Early-Histories-of-Rajasthan-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/07\/Thelen-Early-Histories-of-Rajasthan-768x1151.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/07\/Thelen-Early-Histories-of-Rajasthan-1025x1536.jpeg 1025w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/07\/Thelen-Early-Histories-of-Rajasthan-375x562.jpeg 375w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/07\/Thelen-Early-Histories-of-Rajasthan-750x1124.jpeg 750w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/07\/Thelen-Early-Histories-of-Rajasthan-1140x1709.jpeg 1140w, https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2022\/07\/Thelen-Early-Histories-of-Rajasthan.jpeg 1250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Urban Histories of Rajasthan: Religion, Politics and Society (1550-1800)&#8221; by Elizabeth Thelen<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are proud to celebrate another remarkable alumni accomplishment. Dr. Elizabeth Thelen is a 2006 graduate of UW with an Honor\u2019s Thesis (BA) in Hindi from the department of Asian Languages and Literature. Dr. Thelen has recently published her book Urban Histories of Rajasthan: Religion, Politics and Society (1550-1800).\u00a0This volume is the latest in the<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/news\/alumni-highlight-dr-elizabeth-thelen-publishes-new-book-on-history-of-urban-rajasthan\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":676,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Alumni Highlight: Dr. Elizabeth Thelen Publishes New Book on History of Urban Rajasthan - South Asia Center<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/southasia\/news\/alumni-highlight-dr-elizabeth-thelen-publishes-new-book-on-history-of-urban-rajasthan\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Alumni Highlight: Dr. Elizabeth Thelen Publishes New Book on History of Urban Rajasthan - South Asia Center\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We are proud to celebrate another remarkable alumni accomplishment. 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