Reversing the Gaze: Amar Singh's Diary, A Colonial Subject s Narrative of Imperial India

RUDOLPH, Susanne H., Lloyd I. Rudolph and Mohan Singh Kanota (eds)

ISBN 10: 0198075073 / ISBN 13: 9780198075073

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2011, 2011

Beschreibung

Pbk royal 8vo, 625pp, INSCRIBED by the editors on title page, illustr sepia-tone photos, faint exterior shelfwear but appears an unread copy, internally excellent clean tight unmarked, as new.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers Ind330

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Reversing the Gaze: Amar Singh's Diary, A Colonial Subject s Narrative of Imperial India
• Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2011
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0198075073
• ISBN-13: 9780198075073
• Einband: Softcover
• Auflage: 2. Auflage
• Zustand: near fine

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Inhaltsangabe

This book contains selections from the diary of Amar Singh from the year 1898 to 1905, recording his sense of discovery and surprise at diverse sites: the Jodhpur Court, women's quarters of the Jodhpur Haveli, Lord Curzon's Imperial Cadet Corps. In daily negotitations with the British and Rajput counter-players, Amar Singh constructs a hybrid self, a Rajput nobleman and an Edwardian officer and gentleman. In an era that seems to be more at ease with subjective truths than objective knowledge, Amar Singh reverses gaze of the subaltern by playing participant, observer, informant, narrator, and author in a seemingly innocuous diary, written to 'keep [himself] amused'. The new epilogue, entitled Engaging Subject Knowledge: Learning from Amar Singh's Diary Narratives of and by the Self, updates research on and brings together various aspects of ethnographic writings.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Susanne H. Rudolph served as president of the American Political Science Association and of the Association for Asian Studies; Lloyd I. Rudolph has served as Chair of the University of Chicago's Committee on International Relations; Mohan Singh Kanota is Amar Singh's nephew and heir.