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008			180316b2017 xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d
020			_a9780199465897
082			_a954.031 RUD-L
100			_aRudolph, Lloyd I
245			_aRomanticism's child : _ban intellectual history of James Tod's influence on Indian history and historiography / _cLloyd I. Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph
260			_aIndia _bOxford University Press _c2017
300			_a235 p.
365			_aINR _b695.00.
500			_aThe fascination of Colonel James Tod, one of the earliest colonial ethnographers, with the cultural practices, communities and histories of the people of Rajasthan led to a meticulous compilation of information about the region and its people, whom he deeply admired. His two-volume masterwork, Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, published in London in 1829 and 1832, inspired generations of popular renderings of the past, including nationalist and vernacular imaginations in the whole of South Asia. Tod’s narrative style reflects the influence of Romanticism, medieval feudalism and civilizational progress starkly at variance with the official colonial view of the pre-British past of India. What was the source of this ‘romanticism’ of Colonel Tod? Susanne and Lloyd Rudolph contextualize the formation of Tod’s ideas and their reception through documents written by or to Tod, which help in situating and contextualizing his life work. Interestingly, the second part of the book collects the exchange between Tod and James Mill in the British parliament over the administration of British territories in India with Rajputana as a case study. This book thus significantly contributes to the exploration of knowledge-formation in colonial India and its contemporary influence.
650			_aRomanticism
650			_aIndia--Rajasthan
650			_aIndia
650			_aBritish Occupation of India (1765-1947)
650			_aBritish colonies
650			_aEast India Company
650			_aTod, James, 1782-1835
650			_aHistoriography
700			_aRudolph, Susanne Hoeber