Kingship and Polity on the Himalayan Borderland
Kingship and Polity on the Himalayan Borderland explores the modern transformation of state and society in the Indian Himalaya. Centred on three Rajput led-kingdoms during the transition to British rule (c. 1790-1840) and their interconnected histories, it demonstrates how border making practices en...
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| description | Kingship and Polity on the Himalayan Borderland explores the modern transformation of state and society in the Indian Himalaya. Centred on three Rajput led-kingdoms during the transition to British rule (c. 1790-1840) and their interconnected histories, it demonstrates how border making practices engendered a modern reading of 'tradition' that informs communal identities to this day. Countering the common depiction of these states as all-male, caste-exclusive entities, it reveals the strong familial base of Rajput polity, wherein women — and regent queens in particular — played a key role alongside numerous non-Rajput groups. Drawing on rich archival records, rarely examined local histories, and nearly two decades of ethnographic research, it offers an alternative to the popular and scholarly discourses that developed with the rise of colonial knowledge. The analysis exposes the cardinal contribution of borderland spaces to the fabrication of group identities. This book will interest historians and anthropologists of South Asia and of the Himalaya, as well as scholars working on postcolonialism, gender, and historiography. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-1685182025-10-24T05:13:54Z Kingship and Polity on the Himalayan Borderland Moran, Arik early colonial encounter borderlands himalaya rajput kingship state formation thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHF Asian history Kingship and Polity on the Himalayan Borderland explores the modern transformation of state and society in the Indian Himalaya. Centred on three Rajput led-kingdoms during the transition to British rule (c. 1790-1840) and their interconnected histories, it demonstrates how border making practices engendered a modern reading of 'tradition' that informs communal identities to this day. Countering the common depiction of these states as all-male, caste-exclusive entities, it reveals the strong familial base of Rajput polity, wherein women — and regent queens in particular — played a key role alongside numerous non-Rajput groups. Drawing on rich archival records, rarely examined local histories, and nearly two decades of ethnographic research, it offers an alternative to the popular and scholarly discourses that developed with the rise of colonial knowledge. The analysis exposes the cardinal contribution of borderland spaces to the fabrication of group identities. This book will interest historians and anthropologists of South Asia and of the Himalaya, as well as scholars working on postcolonialism, gender, and historiography. 2025-10-24T05:13:53Z 2025-10-24T05:13:53Z 2025-10-23T08:33:39Z 2025 book ONIX_20251023T102741_9781040781326_48 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/107851 9781040781326 9789462985605 9781040797655 9781041181804 9781003698517 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/168518 eng Asian Borderlands open access image/jpeg n/a https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/107851/1/9781040781326.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.5117/9789462985605 10.5117/9789462985605 fa69b019-f4ee-4979-8d42-c6b6c476b5f0 9781040781326 9789462985605 9781040797655 9781041181804 9781003698517 Routledge 248 Oxford open access |
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