Reversing the gaze: Amar Singh's diary, a colonial subject's narrative of Imperial India /
Amar Singh,
Reversing the gaze: Amar Singh's diary, a colonial subject's narrative of Imperial India / editing and commentary by Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, Lloyd L. Rudolph, with Mohan Singh Kanota. - New Delhi.: Oxford University Press, c2000. - xii, 633 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [487]-552) and index.
Getting Started. About the Diary. The Education of a Diarist. Sarkar. Hurjee. The Apprentice. Manners and Mores. A Mania for Polo. Blood and Other Sports. My Family -- The Jodhpur Lancers in China: Imperial Soldiers or Coolies of the Raj? Getting There: With the Allied Expeditionary Force to China. Tensions in the China Garrison. Under Fire at Lijapoo. Thinking it Over: "Tried Warrior" or "Coolie of the Raj"? -- Transgression and Reconciliation: Becoming a Householder. An Uncommon Wedding. Becoming a Householder -- Soldier for the Raj?: Accommodation and Resistance at the Imperial Cadet Corps. "An Example for Others": First Term in the Imperial Cadet Corps. "The Results of Sodomy": Second Term in the Imperial Cadet Corps. "Too Proud and Haughty"?: Third Term in the Imperial Cadet Corps. "To Command Europeans"?: Fifth Term in the Imperial Cadet Corps. Pt. I. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Pt. II. 1. 2. 3. 4. Pt. III. 1. 2. Pt. IV. 1. 2. 3. 4. "The Big Swells were Gone": Sixth Term in the Imperial Cadet Corps. "Good-bye, My Dear Corps": Seventh Term in the Imperial Cadet Corps -- Private Lives in Patriarchal Space: Amar Sing at Home in Princely India. Diplomacy of Everyday Life: "This Damned Etiquette" Lectures to the Maharaja of Kishengarh: "How to Promote Love" and "The Abuses of Youth" Women at Home: "What Real Difficulties There Are in a Rajput Family Life" Joint-Family Responsibilities: "My One Aim Is to Secure Peace at Home" Men in the World: Estate Management, Horses, and Books. Harmony and Dissidence in the Joint Family: "Show Sympathy and You Will Earn Confidence" -- Princely Courts in Imperial Space. Court Society at Jodhpur: The Struggle for the Maharaja's Person. Court Society at Kishengarh and Idar: Replicating Marks of Sovereignty. H. H. Kishengarh Marries at Udaipur: The Ceremonial Enactment of Inferiority. 5. 6. Pt. V. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Pt. VI. 1. 2. 3. Imperial Ritual at Alwar: Lord Curzon Invests Jai Singh with Full Powers. Paramountcy and Corruption: Talks with Political Officers. 4. 5.
0195658698 9780195658699
Rajasthan (India)--Kings and rulers
India--History
923.2 / SIN/R
Reversing the gaze: Amar Singh's diary, a colonial subject's narrative of Imperial India / editing and commentary by Susanne Hoeber Rudolph, Lloyd L. Rudolph, with Mohan Singh Kanota. - New Delhi.: Oxford University Press, c2000. - xii, 633 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [487]-552) and index.
Getting Started. About the Diary. The Education of a Diarist. Sarkar. Hurjee. The Apprentice. Manners and Mores. A Mania for Polo. Blood and Other Sports. My Family -- The Jodhpur Lancers in China: Imperial Soldiers or Coolies of the Raj? Getting There: With the Allied Expeditionary Force to China. Tensions in the China Garrison. Under Fire at Lijapoo. Thinking it Over: "Tried Warrior" or "Coolie of the Raj"? -- Transgression and Reconciliation: Becoming a Householder. An Uncommon Wedding. Becoming a Householder -- Soldier for the Raj?: Accommodation and Resistance at the Imperial Cadet Corps. "An Example for Others": First Term in the Imperial Cadet Corps. "The Results of Sodomy": Second Term in the Imperial Cadet Corps. "Too Proud and Haughty"?: Third Term in the Imperial Cadet Corps. "To Command Europeans"?: Fifth Term in the Imperial Cadet Corps. Pt. I. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Pt. II. 1. 2. 3. 4. Pt. III. 1. 2. Pt. IV. 1. 2. 3. 4. "The Big Swells were Gone": Sixth Term in the Imperial Cadet Corps. "Good-bye, My Dear Corps": Seventh Term in the Imperial Cadet Corps -- Private Lives in Patriarchal Space: Amar Sing at Home in Princely India. Diplomacy of Everyday Life: "This Damned Etiquette" Lectures to the Maharaja of Kishengarh: "How to Promote Love" and "The Abuses of Youth" Women at Home: "What Real Difficulties There Are in a Rajput Family Life" Joint-Family Responsibilities: "My One Aim Is to Secure Peace at Home" Men in the World: Estate Management, Horses, and Books. Harmony and Dissidence in the Joint Family: "Show Sympathy and You Will Earn Confidence" -- Princely Courts in Imperial Space. Court Society at Jodhpur: The Struggle for the Maharaja's Person. Court Society at Kishengarh and Idar: Replicating Marks of Sovereignty. H. H. Kishengarh Marries at Udaipur: The Ceremonial Enactment of Inferiority. 5. 6. Pt. V. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Pt. VI. 1. 2. 3. Imperial Ritual at Alwar: Lord Curzon Invests Jai Singh with Full Powers. Paramountcy and Corruption: Talks with Political Officers. 4. 5.
0195658698 9780195658699
Rajasthan (India)--Kings and rulers
India--History
923.2 / SIN/R