A01=Florence D'Souza
Author_Florence D'Souza
beyond binary oppositions
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friendly exchanges
geographical moorings
history
institutional and ethnic hypotheses
James Tod
making Rajputana known
mediator of knowledge
social customs
the Rajputs
Product details
- ISBN 9780719090806
- Weight: 567g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jul 2015
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Florence D’Souza is Lecturer in Studies of the English-Speaking World at the University of Lille 3, France
