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...David Tod Roy Li Sao. A Third Century B.C. Poem by Chʻü Yüan . Translated by Jerah Johnson . Miami : Olivant Press , 1959 . Olivant Quarterly No. 4. iv , 74 . Introduction, Notes. $4.00 (paper). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1960 1960 BOOK REVIEWS 103 might...

... not only courtly bards but Brahmins and Jain monks—and the “ethics focused on gendered heroic norms” these texts purveyed. This ethics, she argues, eventually became definitive for Rajput identity. Another chapter unfolds in the early colonial period, with special attention to Colonel James Tod, author...

... the Indus Valley civilization to the integration of the state in the Indian Union in 1948. The bulk of the historical narrative is based, like Tod's Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, on unpublished compilations placed at his disposal by the Maharao, and on the oral history of the bards. Professor...

... the political and cultural map of South Asia. Lloyd Rudolph and Susanne Hoeber Rudolph provide a thorough overview of the life and career of James Tod, author of the Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan (1829 32) and political agent to the Rajput states. Rudolph and Rudolph demonstrate the importance of Tod s...

... in the book he suggests that the categories and narratives developed by James Tod, the nineteenth-century colonial administrator-historian, continue to frame the writing of Rajasthani histories, and that there is a need to go beyond these. Vidal goes on to develop his understanding of Sirohi state...

... resistance to Mughal and Muslim overlordship. By the early nineteenth century, the English colonial administrator and scholar James Tod described him as “the last Hindu emperor,” a designation that Talbot demonstrates to be “manifestly untrue” (p. 3). By the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries...

...Franklin W. Houn Kuo Mo-Jo. The Early Years . By David Tod Roy . Cambridge : The Harvard University Press , 1971 . 171 pp. Notes, Bibliography, Glossary, Index. $7.50. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1971 1971 BOOK REVIEWS 193 33 percent from 1913 to 1918 (p...

.... Of course, not every historical phenomenon is unique; indeed, we cannot understand what is unique without reference to shared and non-shared features. The lively debate about feudalism in Rajputana was begun by Colonel james Tod, resident at Mcwar in the early nine-tccnih century and a romantic...

... the same time and which is vastly superior both as a work of scholarship and as a work of literature. DAVID TOD ROY Harvard University cant force in Tokugawa Japan. By relative neglect of the post-1868 period, however, they have implied that this body of thought was completely inundated by the tide...

... traditions and leaned on a Brahmin poet named Dalpatram for linguistic and cultural access. Here, a reflection upon the colonial romanticization of the Rajputs, inaugurated by Company officer James Tod a few decades before Forbes, would have been apropos. Kapadia reads precolonial traces—fluidity...

... as it was in many ways by colonial categories. Vidal's book, a history of Sirohi state in Rajasthan in western India, is a sophisticated and important addition to this literature. Early in the book he suggests that the categories and narratives developed by James Tod, the nineteenth-century colonial administrator...

... REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 759 from the late sixteenth century on by a new Rajput Great Tradition, exemplified especially in Rajasthan and most of all in Mewar, emphasizing genealogical orthodoxy. It is this later orthodoxy, Kolff says, that shaped the understanding of Rajput history we inherited from Tod...

... of all in Mewar, emphasizing genealogical orthodoxy. It is this later orthodoxy, Kolff says, that shaped the understanding of Rajput history we inherited from Tod and other British-Indian administrators. The earlier tradition of naukari (long-distance service of military retainers) characterized...

... in the early Mughal assignment system. Interactions of imperial institutions with their economic, cultural, political, and social surroundings constitute a third theme, connecting the other two. B. L. Bhadani considers James Tod's view that Rajasthani kingship mimicked feudal Europe and Alfred Lyall's view...

... pp. $19.00 (paper). BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 885 are used here, still owe a considerable amount to the categories that Tod and others developed. In a thought-provoking discussion, the book looks at the complementary but tense relationship of the principal merchant community in the kingdom, the Jains...

... scholars of Oirat history, gives the personal name of Zaya Pandita as Namkhai-Jamtsu or Namkhaijamts. 16 Radnabhadra, Saran Gerel , in Bibliotheca Oiratica XII ( Ulaanbaatar , Tod Nomin Gerel Tov , 2009 ), p. 84 . ...

... elude a less incisive eye and intellect. In the interest of presenting such information Dr. Archer, who started his career in the BOOK REVIEWS 545 Indian Civil Service, belongs in the company Archer's survey of each local school is titled of such deeply committed westerners as Tod, "Painting: Catalogue...

.... The reprinting of Prinsep's History offers an opportunity for a fresh assessment of a major work by a forgotten historian, who is usually ranked lower than his contemporaries such as Elphinstone, Grant Duff, Malcolm, and Tod. Henry Thoby Prinsep (1792-1878) came from a remarkable family; his father was John...

..., Grant Duff, Malcolm, and Tod. Henry Thoby Prinsep (1792-1878) came from a remarkable family; his father was John Prinsep, who had made a fortune in India, and then acted as an East India agent in London; seven of his sons worked in India, including James Prinsep, the numismatist and philologist. Henry...

... the relationship of Romani to other Indo-Aryan languages. It is the same argument that Sturtevant used thirteen years later, in his famous article "The Pronoun *so, *sa, *tod and the Indo-Hittite Hypothesis." Although clarity of exposition and careful method characterize all the writings of Turner, it is perhaps...