Knowledge, mediation and empire James Tod's journeys among the Rajputs /
D'Souza, Florence,author.
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.
Description based upon print version of record.
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.
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.
Description based on print version record.
Tod, James, 1782-1835.
Tod, James, 1782-1835
Tod, James, 1782-1835.