Knowledge, mediation and empire (eBook)

James Tod's journeys among the Rajputs

Florence D'Souza (Autor)

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2015
288 Seiten
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-78499-208-8 (ISBN)

Infos

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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This study of the British colonial administrator James Tod (1782-1835), who spent five years in north-western India (1818-22) collecting every conceivable type of material of historical or cultural interest on the Rajputs and the Gujaratis, gives special attention to his role as a mediator of knowledge about this little-known region of the British Empire in the early nineteenth century to British and European audiences. The book aims to illustrate that British officers did not spend all their time oppressing and inferiorising the indigenous peoples under their colonial authority, but also contributed to propagating cultural and scientific information about them, and that they did not react only negatively to the various types of human difference they encountered in the field.

Autor

Florence D’Souza is Lecturer in Studies of the English-Speaking World at the University of Lille 3, France

Inhalt

Introduction
1. Tod as an observer of landscape in Rajasthan and Gujarat
2. Tod as anthropologist: trying to understand
3. Tod’s practice of science in India: voyages through empirical common sense
4. Tod’s use of romanticism in his textual constructions of Rajasthan and Gujarat
5. Tod’s romantic approach as opposed to James Mill’s utilitarian approach to British government in India
6. Tod’s knowledge exchanges with his contemporaries
Conclusion
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.7.2015
• Reihe/Serie: Studies in Imperialism
• Zusatzinfo: Illustrations, black & white|Maps
• Verlagsort: Manchester
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Schlagworte: beyond binary oppositions • friendly exchanges • geographical moorings • History • institutional and ethnic hypotheses • James Tod • making Rajputana known • mediator of knowledge • Social customs • the Rajputs
• ISBN-10: 1-78499-208-9 / 1784992089
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78499-208-8 / 9781784992088