Arik Moran

Kingship and Polity on the Himalayan Borderland (eBook, PDF)

Rajput Identity during the Early Colonial Encounter

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the modern transformation of state and society in the Indian Himalaya.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9789048536757
• Artikelnr.: 59511152

Autorenporträt

Moran Arik :

Arik Moran received his doctorate from the University of Oxford in 2010, and is a member of the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Haifa since 2011. He studies the oral and written histories and ritual cultures of the Indian Western Himalaya.Schendel Willem :

Willem van Schendel, Professor of History, University of Amsterdam and International Institute of Social History, the Netherlands. He works with the history, anthropology and sociology of Asia. Recent works include A History of Bangladesh (2020), Embedding Agricultural Commodities (2017, ed.), The Camera as Witness (2015, with J. L. K. Pachuau). See uva.academia.edu/WillemVanSchendel.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1. MEMORIES OF A FEUD: CHINJHIAR
1795 1.1 THE BILASPUR-KANGRA RIVALRY
C. 1750-1795 1.2 THE BARD'S TALE 1.3 ENTER SIRMAUR 1.4 THE RAJPUTIZATION OF PAHARI KINGSHIP: NARRATIVES OF CHINJHIAR
C. 1900 CHAPTER 2. ALTERITY AND MYTH IN HIMALAYAN HISTORIOGRAPHY: KANGRA
SIRMAUR
AND GORKHA RULE IN THE WEST 2.1 THE RISE OF THE KATOCH LEGEND 2.2 BEYOND THE BILASPUR-KANGRA RIVALRY: SIRMAUR 1795/6-1815 2.3 EXPLAINING THE SILENCE BEHIND GORKHA RULE IN WEST HIMALAYAN HISTORIES CHAPTER 3. SATI AND SOVEREIGNTY IN THEORY AND PRACTISE 3.1 THE MULTIPLE ROLES OF ROYAL WOMEN
C. 1775-1825 3.2 THE GULERI RANI OF SIRMAUR 3.3 RETHINKING SATI AND WOMEN'S AGENCY IN BRITISH INDIA 3.4 EUROPEAN AND PAHARI RAJPUT APPROPRIATIONS OF SATI CHAPTER 4. STATECRAFT AT THE EDGE OF EMPIRE: BILASPUR
1795-1835 4.1 BEYOND THE RAJPUT FOLD: BRAHMINS
ASCETICS
AND MONASTIC ADVISORS 4.2 THE FINAL THROES OF THE BILASPUR-KANGRA RIVALRY: KOT DHAR
1819 4.3 KINGSHIP RECALIBRATED: KHARAK CHAND'S BILASPUR
1824-35 CHAPTER 5. WIDOWED RANIS
SCHEMING RAJAS
AND THE MAKING OF 'RAJPUT TRADITION': BILASPUR'S FORGOTTEN REVOLUTION
1839-40 5.1 A MARRIAGE OF INTERESTS: THE SIRMAURI RANIS IN BILASPUR 5.2 KINGSHIP AMD ITS PRACTISE: BILASPUR
SIRMAUR
AND THE 'RAJPUT STATE' 5.3 THE RANIS' REVOLUTION: BILASPUR
1839-40 AFTERWORD: PAHARI RAJPUTS IN THE INDIAN IMAGINATION
BIBLIOGRAPHY
APPENDICES