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

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


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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.

Table of Contents:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ; SELECTIONS FROM AMAR SINGH'S READINGS ; INTRODUCTION ; 1. Provenance: Making a Self at the Jodhpur Court ; 2. Liminality: Making a Self between Two Cultures ; 3. How we Encountered the Diary ; 4. Reconstructing the Text ; 5. An Indian Diary in English? ; 6. Reversing the Gaze: The Diarist as Reflexive 'Native' Ethnographer ; PART I. GETTING STARTED ; 1. About the Diary ; 2. Education of the 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 ; PART II. THE JODHPUR LANCERS IN CHINA ; 1. Getting There: With the Allied Expeditionary Force to China ; 2. Tensions in the China Garrison ; 3. Under Fire at Lijapoo; Thinking it Over ; 4. 'Tried Warrior' or 'Coolie of the Raj' ; PART III. TRANSGRESSION AND RECONCILIATION ; 1. An Uncommon Wedding ; 2. Becoming a Householder ; PART IV. SOLDIER OF THE RAJ? ; 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. 'Goodbye, My Dear Corps': Seventh Term in the Imperial Cadet Corps ; PART V. PRIVATE LIVES IN PATRIARCHAL SPACE ; 1. Diplomacy in 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' ; PART 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 ; EPILOGUE ; GLOSSARIES ; AUTHOR INDEX ; INDEX OF SUBJECTS AND CONCEPTS ; INDEX OF EPILOGUE

About the Author :
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.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780198075073
  • Publisher: OUP India
  • Publisher Imprint: OUP India
  • Edition: Revised edition
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 38 mm
  • Weight: 1214 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0198075073
  • Publisher Date: 20 Oct 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 242 mm
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Amar Singh's Diary, a Colonial Subject's Narrative of Imperial India
  • Width: 160 mm


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