Reversing the Gaze: Amar Singh's Diary

Rudolph, Susanne Hoeber

ISBN 10: 0195658698 / ISBN 13: 9780195658699

Verlag: Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.: Oxford Univ Pr, 2005

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Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Reversing the Gaze: Amar Singh's Diary
• Verlag: Cary, North Carolina, U.S.A.: Oxford Univ Pr
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0195658698
• ISBN-13: 9780195658699
• Einband: Soft cover
• Zustand: Very Good
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Inhaltsangabe

Amar Singh reverses the gaze. A colonial subject contemplates an imperial other. He begins writing at twenty, producing over forty-four years what may be one of the world's longest continuous diaries. These selections from the years 1898 to 1905, are the work of the young Amar Singh. He records his sense of discovery and surprise at diverse sites - the Jodhpur court, the women' quarters of the Jaipur haveli, Lord Curzon's Imperial Cadet Corps. In daily negotiations with his British and Rajput counterplayers, he constructs a hybrid self, a Rajput nobleman and an Edwardian officer and gentleman. Through daily entries, the reader experiences the immediacy of Amar Singh's subjective knowledge. Threatened by the boredom of princely state and raj philistinism, Amar Singh writes to 'keep myself amused'. His diary becomes an alter ego. He writes about culture in the making as well as in the doing. In an era that seems more comfortable with the subjective truths of agency and voice than with the objective truths of structural determination or formal analysis, Amar Singh's reflexive narrative offers an open ended, constructivist explanation of history and self.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Susanne Hoeber Rudolph and Lloyd I. Rudolph are Professors Emerita and Emeritus in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago. Susanne Rudolph has served as President of the American Political Science Association and the Association for Asian Studies. They have spent eleven years living and doing research in India. Their books include The Modernity of Tradition, Essays on Rajputana, Gandhi and In Pursuit of Lakshmi. Mohan Singh Kanota, Amar Singh's nephew and heir, is the author of History of the Champawats and The Khachwaha Descendents of Hamir (both in Hindi). In 2007, the Rudolphs were awarded the Col. James Tod International Award.