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