24.0 x 16.0cms 633pp 60 b/w illusts fine hardcover & dustwrapper Born and bred a Rajput Singh wrote these diary entries to keep himself amused and 'in responmse to his liminal positioning between two societies Rajput and English the first 'blac' princely and subordinate; the second 'white' colonial and dominant.His effforts to grasp and master the difference between them defined the cultural borderland that finds expression in this diary [which is] a reflexive 'native's' narrative about the self the master and the relationship between them'.

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Titel: Reversing The Gaze: Amar Singh's Diary A Colonial Subject's Narrative Of Imperial India
Verlag: Westview Press Boulder Colorado 2002
Erscheinungsjahr: 2002
Sprache: Englisch
ISBN-10: 0813336260
ISBN-13: 9780813336268
Einband: Hardcover
Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Schutzumschlag

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An engrossing narrative of a colonial subjects life contemplating his Imperial masters at the height of colonialism in India; based upon the first eight years of his life-long diary. Amar Singh, a Rajput nobleman and officer in the Indian Army, kept a diary for 44 years from 1898, when he was twenty, until his death in 1942. In it he writes about the Jodhpur court, the Imperial Cadet Corps, and the British Expeditionary Force in China during the Boxer rebellion. A century before hybridity, he constructs a hybrid self, an Edwardian officer cum gentleman and a martial Rajput cum manor lord. With the diary acting as alter ego and best friend, Amar Singh resists becoming a coolie for the raj when he finds the British to be racist masters as well as friends. He writes and reads extensively to keep himself amused, he says, and to avoid the boredom of princedom and raj philistinism. Here the authors focus on the first eight years of Amar Singhs diary (1898-1905), offering a rare and intimate glimpse into British colonialism from the point of view of a colonial subject. Illustrated with fifty photographs and facsimiles from Amar Singhs readings. 0813327687 Transnational Religion and Fading States

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Susanne Hoeber Rudolph and Lloyd I. Rudolph are professors of political science at the University of Chicago. Among their books are The Modernity of Tradition and In Pursuit of Lakshmi. Mohan Singh Kanota, Amar Singh's nephew and heir, is also the author of The History of the Champawats and Kachhawas of Hamir Dev (both in Hindi). Susanne Hoeber Rudolph and Lloyd I. Rudolph are professors of political science at the University of Chicago. Among their books are The Modernity of Tradition and In Pursuit of Lakshmi. Mohan Singh Kanota, Amar Singh's nephew and heir, is also the author of The History of the Champawats and Kachhawas of Hamir Dev (both in Hindi). Susanne Hoeber Rudolph and Lloyd I. Rudolph are professors of political science at the University of Chicago. Among their books are The Modernity of Tradition and In Pursuit of Lakshmi. Mohan Singh Kanota, Amar Singh's nephew and heir, is also the author of The History of the Champawats and Kachhawas of Hamir Dev (both in Hindi).

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