Reversing The Gaze

Author: Susanne Hoeber RudolphPublisher: Oxford University PressYear: 2000Language: EnglishPages: 625ISBN/UPC (if available): 0195647521 DescriptionThis selection from what may well is one of the world's longest continuous diaries, extending over forty-four years, filling 89 folio volumes of 800 pages each, Amar Singh records his sense of discovery and surprise at diverse sites. Amar Singh reverses the gaze. A colonial subject contemplates an imperial other: He begins writing at twenty, producing what may well be one of the world's longest continuous diaries, extending over forty-four years, filling 89 folio volumes of 800 pages each. These selections, from the years 1898 to 1905, are the work of the young Amar Singh. He records his sense of discovery and surprise at diverse sites: the Jodhpur court, the women's quarters of the Jaipur haveli, Lord Curzon's Imperial Cadet Corps, the British Expeditionary Force in China. In daily negoitations with his British and Rajput counterplayer