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Kingship and Polity on the Himalayan Borderland - Rajput Identity during the Early Colonial Encounter (Hardcover, 0)
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Kingship and Polity on the Himalayan Borderland - Rajput Identity during the Early Colonial Encounter (Hardcover, 0)
Series: Asian Borderlands
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Kingship and Polity on the Himalayan Borderland 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 this day.
Countering the common depiction of these states as all-male,
caste-exclusive entities, it reveals the strong familial base of
Rajput polity, wherein women - and regent queens in particular -
played a key role alongside numerous non-Rajput groups. Drawing on
rich archival records, rarely examined local histories, and nearly
two decades of ethnographic research, it offers an alternative to
the popular and scholarly discourses that developed with the rise
of colonial knowledge. The analysis exposes the cardinal
contribution of borderland spaces to the fabrication of group
identities. This book will interest historians and anthropologists
of South Asia and of the Himalaya, as well as scholars working on
postcolonialism, gender, and historiography.
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