Now available in a numbered limited edition of 750 copies, this re-issue of the original text including over 80 original copperplate engravings, woodblock prints, and lithographs returns the text to its original state, while the accompanying companion volume critically reframes this monumental, but often misunderstood, work. The new volume shows how Tod's Annals is not merely the product of the singular voice of a Western "orientalist" imagination, instead revealing a richly complex work in which Rajasthani voices provide a "multi-authored" heterogeneity to the text which is often discordant and unpredictable. Re-articulating the variety of voices that simultaneously inhabit Tod's Annals, the revised volume argues for a more conjunctural, contingent, and open-ended reading of colonial history.
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Peter Frankopan is a historian.
Very excited to see this in 2023 @AoAlio ! Lt.-Col. James Tod was a founding member and first Librarian of the @RAS_Soc. His Annals and Antiquities of Rajast’han provide a fascinating window to the past. PLUS - new companion volume ed. by Norbert Peabody https://t.co/HCY5iChJDB