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

• Autore: D'Souza Florence
• Pubblicazione: Manchester : , : Manchester University Press, , 2015; Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2017; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (278 p.)
• Disciplina: 954/.4031092
• Soggetto geografico: Rajasthan (staat); India Rajasthan; Rajasthan (India) History
• Soggetto genere / forma: History; Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (pages 238-249) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Knowledge, mediation and empire
• ISBN: 1-78170-857-6; 1-78499-207-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910480059703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Studies in imperialism (Manchester, England)