Kingship and Polity on the Himalayan Borderland: Rajput Identity during the Early Colonial Encounter (Asian Borderlands)

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This book explores the brand new transformation of state and society within the Indian Himalaya. Centred on three Rajput-led kingdoms all the way through the transition to British rule (c. 1790-1840) and their interconnected histories, it demonstrates how border making practices engendered a brand new reading of ‘tradition’ that informs communal identities thus far. By revising the history of those mountain kings at the basis of extensive archival, textual, and ethnographic research, it offers an alternative choice to popular and scholarly discourses that grew with the upward thrust of colonial knowledge. This revision in the end points to the essential contribution of borderland spaces to the fabrication of group identities.

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