Serving Empire, Serving Nation

James Tod and the Rajputs of Rajasthan
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-04-17594-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 5, 230 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

Reihe: European Expansion and Indigenous Response

James Tod’s Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan was crucial in forming the modern image of the Rajput, 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Freitag, Jason

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 'ḳaulnÄma'
Glossary of Indian Terms
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

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.