Embattled identities: Rajput lineages and the colonial state in nineteenth-century North India

Kasturi, Malavika

Embattled identities: Rajput lineages and the colonial state in nineteenth-century North India - New Delhi Oxford university press 2002 - xviii, 286p., hb.

"This study of the encounter between Rajputs and the British focuses on caste, kinship, gender, and colonial relations. It examines the reconstitution of Rajput identity through property and inheritance strategies, marriage, female infanticide, feuding, banditry, rebellion, and collective
violence."

9780195657876


Modern History-India
Rajput (Indic people) - Social conditions
Caste - India

954.03 / KAS

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