It is the latter examination that makes this book almost a resolution of a historical mystery. Indeed, the first and last chapters of TalbotвЂ™s book talk of a memorial park in Ajmer inaugurated in 1996 (by the BJP government then in power), and the statue of Prithviraj Chauhan in DelhiвЂ™s Birla Mandir dating back to the 1930s вЂ“ both of them 20th century constructs.Д¬ynthia TalbotвЂ™s book investigates in clear historical manner how the legend of Prithviraj Chauhan was created, and looks also at the origins of the book Prithviraj Raso. The epithet has struck, making Chauhan an enduring icon and a symbol, co-opted by the Hindu Right, along with the Rana Pratap and Shivaji, of those who stood up for the preservation of Hinduism and Hindu. In the early 19th century, the British administrator in Ajmer, Colonel James Tod, relying on Raso, then available widely in many recensions (versions of varying length, with different subplots) added to Prithviraj ChauhanвЂ™s name the epithet of the вЂњlast great Hindu emperorвЂќ. It was one that endured and was added onto over the centuries. There Chauhan was blinded and imprisoned, but later, in a demonstration of his archery skills, he struck the Ghurid ruler instead of aiming his arrows at the metal gongs. In his book on the ruler, Prithviraj Raso, his (putative) bard Chand Bardai wrote that the king was imprisoned and taken to Ghazni, accompanied by the bard-narrator himself. As most conventional histories go вЂ“ and this is one of the essential points Cynthia TalbotвЂ™s book, The Last Hindu Emperor: Prithviraj Chauhan and the Making of the Indian Past 1200-2000, brings up вЂ“ Chauhan was defeated in the second battle of Tarain by Shihab al-din, Mohammad bin Sam (Mohammad Ghuri), in 1192 CE. His intention, apparently, was to bring back the remains of Prithviraj Chauhan, the ruler of Ajmer and Delhi between 1178 CE and 1192 CE. Rana sought fame or notoriety вЂ“ depending on oneвЂ™s perspective вЂ“ as he travelled a circuitous route, via Kolkata, Dhaka and then Dubai, to reach Kabul and Kandahar in Afghanistan. He was in prison for murdering, three years earlier, Phoolan Devi (then a sitting Parliamentarian and, in a previous avatar, a bandit in UPвЂ™s Bundelkhand region). In 2004, Sher Singh Rana staged a sensational escape from DelhiвЂ™s Tihar jail. ItвЂ™s so easy to find out all the information about someone onlineвЂ™

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