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Make an estimate of Rana Kumbha as a patron of literature and art

  • UPSC 2015
  • The Fifteenth and Early Sixteenth Century: Society and Culture

Rana Kumbha (r. 1433–1468) of Mewar ruled at the height of a fifteenth-century Rajput cultural efflorescence that ran parallel to the contemporary courts of Vijayanagara and the Bahmani Sultanate, and his reign is unusual among Rajput rulers for combining sustained military campaigning with direct personal scholarship.

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  • Kumbha the Scholar-Author
  • Kumbha as Builder: Forts and the Vijay Stambh
  • Patron of Scholars and the Wider Court Culture
  • A Critical Estimate

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