Knowledge, mediation and empire : James Tod's journeys among the Rajputs

Knowledge, mediation and empire : James Tod's journeys among the Rajputs /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: D'Souza, Florence (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2015.
Series:Studies in imperialism.
Subjects:
Tod, James, > 1782-1835.
Tod, James, > 1782-1835 > Relations with Rajputs.
Tod, James, > 1782-1835
HISTORY > Asia > India & South Asia.
Rajasthan (India) > History.
Rājasthān (Inde) > Histoire.
India > Rajasthan
Rajasthan (staat)
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Tod as an observer of landscape in Rajasthan and Gujarat
  • Tod as anthropologist : trying to understand
  • Tod's practice of science in India : voyages through empirical, common sense
  • Tod's use of Romanticism in his textual constructions of Rajasthan and Gujarat
  • Tod's Romantic approach as opposed to James Mill's Utilitarian approach to British government in India
  • Tod's knowledge exchanges with his contemporaries in India
  • Tod among his contemporaries in London, 1823-35
  • Conclusion : Tod's sympathetic understanding of Rajput difference.

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