Author: James Tod
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Languages : en
Pages : 924
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Annales and Antiquities of Rajasthan
Author: James Tod
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 924
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 924
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Annales and Antiquities of Rajasthan, Or the Central and Western Rajpoot States of Indian
Author: James Tod
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Languages : en
Pages : 972
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Languages : en
Pages : 972
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Annals and Antiquities of Rajast'han, Or, the Central and Western Rajpoot States of India
Author: James Tod
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Category : Rajasthan (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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Publisher:
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Category : Rajasthan (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 678
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Annales and Antiquities of Rajasthan, Or the Central and Western Rajpoot States of Indian
Author: James Tod
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 924
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Languages : en
Pages : 924
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Shooting a Tiger
Author: Vijaya Ramadas Mandala
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199096600
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
The figure of the white hunter sahib proudly standing over the carcass of a tiger with a gun in hand is one of the most powerful and enduring images of the empire. This book examines the colonial politics that allowed British imperialists to indulge in such grand posturing as the rulers and protectors of indigenous populations. This work studies the history of hunting and conservation in colonial India during the high imperial decades of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. At this time, not only did hunting serve as a metaphor for colonial rule signifying the virile sportsmanship of the British hunter, but it also enabled vital everyday governance through the embodiment of the figure of the officer–hunter–administrator. Using archival material and published sources, the author examines hunting and wildlife conservation from various social and ethnic perspectives, and also in different geographical contexts, extending our understanding of the link between shikar and governance.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199096600
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 343
Book Description
The figure of the white hunter sahib proudly standing over the carcass of a tiger with a gun in hand is one of the most powerful and enduring images of the empire. This book examines the colonial politics that allowed British imperialists to indulge in such grand posturing as the rulers and protectors of indigenous populations. This work studies the history of hunting and conservation in colonial India during the high imperial decades of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. At this time, not only did hunting serve as a metaphor for colonial rule signifying the virile sportsmanship of the British hunter, but it also enabled vital everyday governance through the embodiment of the figure of the officer–hunter–administrator. Using archival material and published sources, the author examines hunting and wildlife conservation from various social and ethnic perspectives, and also in different geographical contexts, extending our understanding of the link between shikar and governance.
Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan
Author: James Tod
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Category : Rajasthan (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 758
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Category : Rajasthan (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 758
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Myths and Places
Author: Shonaleeka Kaul
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000897249
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This volume explores the dialogic relationship between myths and places in the historically, geographically, and culturally diverse context of India. Given its ambiguous relationship with ‘facts’ and empirical reality, myth has suffered an uncertain status in the field of professional history, with the latter’s preference for scientifism over more creative orders of representation. Myths and Places rehabilitates myth, not as history’s primeval ‘Other’, nor as an instrument of socio-religious propagation, but as communitarian mechanisms by which societies made sense of themselves and their world. It argues that myths helped communities fashion their identities and their habitat/habitus, and were fashioned by these in turn. This book explores diverse forms of territorial becoming and belonging in a grassroots approach from across India, studying them in culturally sensitive ways to recover local life-worlds and their self-understanding. Further, challenging the stereotypical bracketing of the mythical with the sacred and the material with the historical, the multidisciplinary essays in the book examine myth in relation to not only religion but other historical phenomena such as ecology, ethnicity, urbanism, mercantilism, migration, politics, tourism, art, philosophy, performance, and the everyday. This book will be of interest to scholars and general readers of Indian history, regional studies, cultural geography, mythology, religious studies, and anthropology.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000897249
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
This volume explores the dialogic relationship between myths and places in the historically, geographically, and culturally diverse context of India. Given its ambiguous relationship with ‘facts’ and empirical reality, myth has suffered an uncertain status in the field of professional history, with the latter’s preference for scientifism over more creative orders of representation. Myths and Places rehabilitates myth, not as history’s primeval ‘Other’, nor as an instrument of socio-religious propagation, but as communitarian mechanisms by which societies made sense of themselves and their world. It argues that myths helped communities fashion their identities and their habitat/habitus, and were fashioned by these in turn. This book explores diverse forms of territorial becoming and belonging in a grassroots approach from across India, studying them in culturally sensitive ways to recover local life-worlds and their self-understanding. Further, challenging the stereotypical bracketing of the mythical with the sacred and the material with the historical, the multidisciplinary essays in the book examine myth in relation to not only religion but other historical phenomena such as ecology, ethnicity, urbanism, mercantilism, migration, politics, tourism, art, philosophy, performance, and the everyday. This book will be of interest to scholars and general readers of Indian history, regional studies, cultural geography, mythology, religious studies, and anthropology.
A History of the Late Medieval Siege, 1200-1500
Author: Peter Fraser Purton
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843834499
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
The first book of a two-volume history of siege warfare and techniques in Europe and the Middle and Far East covering the period 450-1500. --
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1843834499
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
The first book of a two-volume history of siege warfare and techniques in Europe and the Middle and Far East covering the period 450-1500. --
The Ocean of Story
Author: Somadeva Bhaṭṭa
Publisher:
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Category : Folk literature
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Category : Folk literature
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms
Languages : en
Pages : 846
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Publisher:
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Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms
Languages : en
Pages : 846
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