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Serving Empire, Serving Nation: James Tod and the Rajputs of Rajasthan: European Expansion and Indigenous Response, cartea 5

Autor Jason Freitag
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 30 iul 2009
James Tod’s Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan was crucial in forming the modern image of the Rājpūt, a princely “martial” caste resident in India’s northwest desert. This book explores the relationships between the political power of the British imperial state, the construction of historical memories in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and the uses of these constructions by European writers and Indian nationalist elites. The case of the Rajputs demonstrates how imperial histories reflected Indian social processes and pre-colonial forms of knowledge, interpreted India for the world outside and for Indians themselves. This book explores the multiple discourses within Tod’s Rajasthan, and European Orientalism, to show how intricately coded the British Empire was and, historically, remains.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9789004175945
ISBN-10: 9004175946
Pagini: 227
Dimensiuni: 160 x 240 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria European Expansion and Indigenous Response


Cuprins

General Editor's Preface
Acknowledgements
Map of Rajasthan

Introduction

1. Context
2. Biography
3. Restoration
4. Protection
5. Interpretation
6. Valuation
7. Reconstruction

Conclusion

Appendix 1. Tod's Publications
Appendix 2. Tod's Donations to Royal Asiatic Society
Appendix 3. Text of 1818 ḳaulnāma

Glossary of Indian Terms
Bibliography
Index

Recenzii

"[...] on the whole this is a coherent and well-argued study of the genesis and impact of Tod's Annals and Antiquities of Rajastan as an imperial historiographical construct, not only in Tod's own time but down the decades until India's Independence and after."
- Florence D'Souza (University of Lille, France), The Journal of Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, Volume 73/3, 2010, pp. 566 - 569

"Serving Empire, Serving Nation sets Tod and his work on the Rajputs firmly within their historical context, and pays significant attention to both the pre- and early colonial periods."
- Jason Lees (Institute of Historical Research, University of London), Modern Asian Studies, Volume 48/3,2014, pp. 826–843.

Notă biografică

Jason Freitag, Ph.D. (2001) in Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures from Columbia University is an Assistant Professor of History at Ithaca College. His research interests include the Britsh Empire in India, historiography, and European Orientalism.