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Serving empire, serving nation : James Tod and Rajputs of Rajasthan
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ISBN: 1282602977 9786612602979 9047429389 9789047429388 9781282602977 9789004175945 9004175946 Year: 2009 Publisher: Leiden [etc.] Brill

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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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Knowledge, mediation and empire
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ISBN: 9781784992071 1784992070 9780719090806 0719090806 1781708576 1784992089 9781526148070 1526148072 9781784992088 Year: 2015 Publisher: Manchester

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James Tod (1782-1835) spent 22 years in India (1800-22), during the last five of which he was Political Agent of the British Government in India to the Western Rajput States in north-west India. This book studies Tod's relationships with particular Rajput leaders and with the Rajputs as a group in general, in order to better understand his attempts to portray their history, geographical moorings and social customs to British and European readers.

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