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Kingship and Polity on the Himalayan Borderland : Rajput Identity during the Early Colonial Encounter / Arik Moran.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Asian BorderlandsPublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource : 1 halftone, 3 line drawingsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789048536757
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301
LOC classification:
  • GN
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Images, Maps and Charts -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Translation and Transliteration -- Introduction -- 1. Memories of a Feud: Chinjhiar, 1795 -- 2. Alterity and Myth in Himalayan Historiography: Kangra, Sirmaur, and Gorkha Rule in the West -- 3. Sati and Sovereignty in Theory and Practise -- 4. Statecraft at the Edge of Empire: Bilaspur, 1795-1835 -- 5. Widowed Ranis, Scheming Rajas, and the Making of 'Rajput Tradition' -- Epilogue -- Appendix: The Jhera of Chinjhiar -- Bibliography -- Index
Title is part of eBook package: AUP eBook Package 2019Summary: This book explores the modern transformation of state and society in the Indian Himalaya. Centred on three Rajput-led kingdoms during the transition to British rule (c. 1790-1840) and their interconnected histories, it demonstrates how border making practices engendered a modern reading of 'tradition' that informs communal identities to date. By revising the history of these mountain kings on the basis of extensive archival, textual, and ethnographic research, it offers an alternative to popular and scholarly discourses that grew with the rise of colonial knowledge. This revision ultimately points to the important contribution of borderland spaces to the fabrication of group identities.
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- List of Images, Maps and Charts -- Acknowledgements -- A Note on Translation and Transliteration -- Introduction -- 1. Memories of a Feud: Chinjhiar, 1795 -- 2. Alterity and Myth in Himalayan Historiography: Kangra, Sirmaur, and Gorkha Rule in the West -- 3. Sati and Sovereignty in Theory and Practise -- 4. Statecraft at the Edge of Empire: Bilaspur, 1795-1835 -- 5. Widowed Ranis, Scheming Rajas, and the Making of 'Rajput Tradition' -- Epilogue -- Appendix: The Jhera of Chinjhiar -- Bibliography -- Index

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This book explores the modern transformation of state and society in the Indian Himalaya. Centred on three Rajput-led kingdoms during the transition to British rule (c. 1790-1840) and their interconnected histories, it demonstrates how border making practices engendered a modern reading of 'tradition' that informs communal identities to date. By revising the history of these mountain kings on the basis of extensive archival, textual, and ethnographic research, it offers an alternative to popular and scholarly discourses that grew with the rise of colonial knowledge. This revision ultimately points to the important contribution of borderland spaces to the fabrication of group identities.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

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