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D'Souza Florence |
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Titolo |
Knowledge, mediation and empire : James Tod's journeys among the Rajputs / / Florence D'Souza |
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Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2015 |
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Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2017 |
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©2015 |
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ISBN |
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1-78170-857-6 |
1-78499-207-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (278 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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History |
Electronic books. |
Rajasthan (staat) |
India Rajasthan |
Rajasthan (India) History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-249) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 in general, in order to better understand his attempts to portray their history, geographical moorings and social customs to British and European readers. |
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