TY  - BOOK
AU  - Amar Singh,
TI  - Reversing the gaze: Amar Singh's diary, a colonial subject's narrative of Imperial India
SN  - 0195658698 
U1  - 923.2 
PY  - 2000///
CY  - New Delhi.
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Rajasthan (India)
KW  - Kings and rulers
KW  - India
KW  - History
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [487]-552) and index; Pt. I; Getting Started; 1; About the Diary; 2; The Education of a 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 --; Pt. II; The Jodhpur Lancers in China: Imperial Soldiers or Coolies of the Raj?; 1; Getting There: With the Allied Expeditionary Force to China; 2; Tensions in the China Garrison; 3; Under Fire at Lijapoo; 4; Thinking it Over: "Tried Warrior" or "Coolie of the Raj"? --; Pt. III; Transgression and Reconciliation: Becoming a Householder; 1; An Uncommon Wedding; 2; Becoming a Householder --; Pt. IV; Soldier for the Raj?: Accommodation and Resistance at the Imperial Cadet Corps; 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; "Good-bye, My Dear Corps": Seventh Term in the Imperial Cadet Corps --; Pt. V; Private Lives in Patriarchal Space: Amar Sing at Home in Princely India; 1; Diplomacy of 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" --; Pt. 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
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