02825oam 22006014a 450 991048005970332120170919040000.01-78170-857-61-78499-207-0(CKB)3710000000493212(EBL)4083634(SSID)ssj0001580441(PQKBManifestationID)16259852(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001580441(PQKBWorkID)14847169(PQKB)11160605(MiAaPQ)EBC4083634(StDuBDS)EDZ0001280986(OCoLC)981893635(MdBmJHUP)muse59472(EXLCZ)99371000000049321220151204d2015 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrKnowledge, mediation and empireJames Tod's journeys among the Rajputs /Florence D'SouzaManchester :Manchester University Press,2015.Baltimore, Md. :Project MUSE, 2017©2015.1 online resource (278 p.)Studies in imperialismDescription based upon print version of record.1-5261-4807-2 0-7190-9080-6 Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-249) and index.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.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.Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)Rajasthan (staat)gttIndiaRajasthanfastRajasthan (India)HistoryHistory.Electronic books. 954/.4031092D'Souza Florence973494MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910480059703321Knowledge, mediation and empire2214730UNINA