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Author Moran, Arik, 1976- author.

Title Kingship and polity on the Himalayan borderland : Rajput identity during the early colonial encounter / Arik Moran.

Publication Info. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2019.

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Description 1 online resource (248 pages)
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series Asian borderlands
Asian borderlands.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary 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.
Note Print version record.
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
Access Open Access EbpS
Subject Rajput (Indic people) -- Himalaya Mountains.
India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947.
Rjput (Peuple de l'Inde) -- Himlaya.
Inde -- Histoire -- 1765-1947 (Occupation britannique)
Asian history.
Humanities.
Social & cultural history.
HISTORY -- General.
Rajput (Indic people)
Himalaya Mountains https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJkD7VgHVHmqXfWxTj6xjC
India https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJmdx47cDXrRhBXHtbvPwC
British Occupation of India (India : 1765-1947) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39Qhp4vBb9M98XDjcqb4jjwDy
Chronological Term 1765-1947
Indexed Term Early Colonial Encounter, Borderlands, Himalaya, Rajput, Kingship, State Formation.
Genre/Form History
Other Form: Print version: Moran, Arik. Kingship and polity on the Himalayan borderland. Rajput identity during the early colonial encounter. Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press 2019 9789462985605 (OCoLC)1079870987
ISBN 9789048536757 (electronic bk.)
9048536758 (electronic bk.)
9789462985605
946298560X
Standard No. AU@ 000065478964
AU@ 000066327446

 
    
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