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Author Freitag, Jason

Title Serving empire, serving nation : James Tod and the Rajputs of Rajasthan / by Jason Freitag
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 227 pages) : map
Series European expansion and indigenous response, 1873-8974 ; v. 5
European expansion and indigenous response ; v. 5.
Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- General Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Map of Rajasthan -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Context -- Chapter 2 -- Biography -- Chapter 3 -- Restoration -- Chapter 4 -- Protection -- Chapter 5 -- Interpretation -- Chapter 6 -- Valuation -- Chapter 7 -- Reconstruction -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Tod's Publications -- Appendix 2: Tod's Donations to Royal Asiatic Society -- Appendix 3: Text of 1818 Kaulnama -- Glossary of Indian Terms -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary Using James Toda (TM)s Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, this book demonstrates the power of the British imperial state in constructing historical memories in late nineteenth and early twentieth century India, and how imperial histories reflected Indian social processes as well as European imperial concerns
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Tod, James, 1782-1835. Annals and antiquities of Rajasthan
SUBJECT Tod, James 1782-1835 gnd
Subject Rajput (Indic people) -- History
Rajput (Indic people) -- Historiography
HISTORY.
Historiography
Rajput (Indic people)
Kolonialismus
Geschichtsschreibung
SUBJECT Rajasthan (India) -- History
Rajasthan (India) -- Historiography
India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064915
Subject India
India -- Rajasthan
Rajasthan
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789047429388
9047429389
1282602977
9781282602977