TY - BOOK ID - 46295840 TI - Kingship and Polity on the Himalayan Borderland : Rajput Identity during the Early Colonial Encounter AU - Moran, Arik AU - Harris, Tina. AU - Schendel, Willem. PY - 2019 SN - 9048536758 946298560X PB - Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press DB - UniCat KW - Rajput (Indic people) KW - India KW - History KW - Rajasthan (Indic people) KW - Rajasthani (Indic people) KW - Rajpoot (Indic people) KW - Rajputs KW - Ethnology KW - Raiput (Indic people) KW - Early Colonial Encounter, Borderlands, Himalaya, Rajput, Kingship, State Formation. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:46295840 AB - This book explores the modern transformation of state and society in the Indian Himalaya. Centred on three Rajput-led kingdoms during the transition to British rule (c. 1790-1840) and their interconnected histories, it demonstrates how border making practices engendered a modern reading of 'tradition' that informs communal identities to date. By revising the history of these mountain kings on the basis of extensive archival, textual, and ethnographic research, it offers an alternative to popular and scholarly discourses that grew with the rise of colonial knowledge. This revision ultimately points to the important contribution of borderland spaces to the fabrication of group identities. ER -