Serving empire, serving nation

Freitag, Jason:
Serving empire, serving nation : James Tod and the Rajputs of Rajasthan / Jason Freitag. - Leiden [u.a.] : Brill, 2009. - xviii, 226 S. : Ill. - (European Expansion and Indigenous Response ; 5)
ISBN 978-90-04-17594-5 / 90-04-17594-6
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Beschreibung
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. [Verlagsinformation]

Inhalt
Dedication
Epigraph
Acknowledgements. xiii
Introduction. 1
Chapter 1: Context. 25
Chapter 2: Biography. 33
Chapter 3: Restoration. 51
Chapter 4: Protection. 75
Chapter 5: Interpretation. 103
Chapter 6: Valuation. 131
Chapter 7: Reconstruction. 171
Conclusion. 197
Appendix 1: Tod's Publications. 201
Appendix 2: Tod's Donations to Royal Asiatic Society. 203
Appendix 3: Text of 1818 Kaulnāma. 209
Glossary of Indian Terms. 211
Bibliography. 213
Index. 223

Autor
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. Profile page.

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