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

Singh, Amar edited by Susanne Hoeber Rudolph & Lloyd I. Rudolph with Mohan Singh Kanota

ISBN 10: 0813336260 / ISBN 13: 9780813336268

Published by Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2002

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2002 1st ed. 633pp. illus. hardback tall 8vo: near Fine in a Fine dj in Brodart poly cover [rem. line bottom edge; else nrF; dj = black marker check mark on back cover; else F] A remarkable diary kept for 44 years, from 1898 until his death, by a Rajput nobleman Amar Singh (1878-1942). Jacket praise from John Kenneth Galbraith, et al.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reversing the Gaze: Amar Singh's Diary, A Colonial Subject's Narrative of Imperial India
• Publisher: Boulder, CO: Westview Press
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0813336260
• ISBN 13: 9780813336268
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • British Empire

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Synopsis

An engrossing narrative of a colonial subjects life contemplating his Imperial masters at the height of colonialism in India; based upon the first eight years of his life-long diary. Amar Singh, a Rajput nobleman and officer in the Indian Army, kept a diary for 44 years from 1898, when he was twenty, until his death in 1942. In it he writes about the Jodhpur court, the Imperial Cadet Corps, and the British Expeditionary Force in China during the Boxer rebellion. A century before hybridity, he constructs a hybrid self, an Edwardian officer cum gentleman and a martial Rajput cum manor lord. With the diary acting as alter ego and best friend, Amar Singh resists becoming a coolie for the raj when he finds the British to be racist masters as well as friends. He writes and reads extensively to keep himself amused, he says, and to avoid the boredom of princedom and raj philistinism. Here the authors focus on the first eight years of Amar Singhs diary (1898-1905), offering a rare and intimate glimpse into British colonialism from the point of view of a colonial subject. Illustrated with fifty photographs and facsimiles from Amar Singhs readings. 0813327687 Transnational Religion and Fading States

About the Author

Susanne Hoeber Rudolph and Lloyd I. Rudolph are professors of political science at the University of Chicago. Among their books are The Modernity of Tradition and In Pursuit of Lakshmi. Mohan Singh Kanota, Amar Singh's nephew and heir, is also the author of The History of the Champawats and Kachhawas of Hamir Dev (both in Hindi). Susanne Hoeber Rudolph and Lloyd I. Rudolph are professors of political science at the University of Chicago. Among their books are The Modernity of Tradition and In Pursuit of Lakshmi. Mohan Singh Kanota, Amar Singh's nephew and heir, is also the author of The History of the Champawats and Kachhawas of Hamir Dev (both in Hindi). Susanne Hoeber Rudolph and Lloyd I. Rudolph are professors of political science at the University of Chicago. Among their books are The Modernity of Tradition and In Pursuit of Lakshmi. Mohan Singh Kanota, Amar Singh's nephew and heir, is also the author of The History of the Champawats and Kachhawas of Hamir Dev (both in Hindi).