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Article: Reversing the Gaze: Amar Singh's Diary, a Colonial Subject's Narrative of Imperial India.(Book Review)
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- The Historian
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- March 22, 2004
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Reversing the Gaze: Amar Singh's Diary, a Colonial Subject's Narrative of Imperial India. Edited and Commentary by Susanne Hoeber Rudolph and Lloyd I. Rudolph, with Mohan Singh Kanota. (Boulder: Westview Press, 2002. Pp. xii, 633. $59.95.)
Amar Singh was a minor member of the Rajput nobility whose military career in British India spanned the first third of the twentieth century. During 1900-1901 he took part in the suppression of the Boxer Rebellion in China as a junior officer in the Jodhpur Lancers. From 1902 to 1905, he attended the Imperial Cadet Corp, Lord Curzon's military training college for Indians from princely families. Upon graduation, he was one of ...