Serving empire, serving nation : James Tod and the Rajputs of Rajasthan /

Serving empire, serving nation : James Tod and the Rajputs of Rajasthan /

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Author / Creator:	Freitag, Jason.
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.
Description:	xv, 227 pages : map ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	European expansion and indigenous response, 1873-8974 ; v. 5 European expansion and indigenous response ; v. 5.
Subject:	Tod, James, -- 1782-1835. -- Annals and antiquities of Rajasthan. British Occupation of India (1765-1947) Rajput (Indic people) -- History. Rajput (Indic people) -- Historiography. Historiography. Rajput (Indic people) Rajasthan (India) -- History. Rajasthan (India) -- Historiography. India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947. India. India -- Rajasthan. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11959109

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ISBN:	9789004175945 9004175946
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"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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Call Number:	DS432.R3 F74 2009
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