Between Two Worlds: A Rajput Officer in the Indian Army, 1905-21
Based on the Diary of Amar Singh of Jaipur
DeWitt C. Ellinwood
Between Two Worlds: A Rajput Officer in the Indian Army, 1905-21
Based on the Diary of Amar Singh of Jaipur
DeWitt C. Ellinwood
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...the author has accomplished the substantial effort needed to make appropriate selections from Amar Sing's voluminous diary linked by extensive commentary in a thorough and excellent manner. The selections provide a good sense of the variety and depth of the information and insights that the diary offers.
...the author has accomplished the substantial effort needed to make appropriate selections from Amar Sing's voluminous diary linked by extensive commentary in a thorough and excellent manner. The selections provide a good sense of the variety and depth of the information and insights that the diary offers.
Ellinwood has ended up providing a rich introduction to the culture and politics of the Raj and its armed forces in the first decades of the twentieth century. The bibliography is extensive, the tone of the test conversational and informative, and the uninitiated reader will finda sure guide to the pecularities and intricacies of British rule and colonial society, no small achievement. The text is of particular valuefor teaching undergraduates, as it provides a seductive mis of first person experience with Ellinwood's summaries of relevant scholarship. Military specialists will find extensive discussion of Indianization, coupled with Amar Singh's often reserved observations of the treatment he received as well as portraits of sympathetic British officers.
Between Two Worlds [is] a welcome addition to the literature on British India's military. …[this] balanced and well documented work [can be seen] as a corrective for those who argue that the similarities between Britain and India's aristocracy played a more important role than race and gender in the workings of the Raj.
DeWitt C. Ellinwood, Jr. is Associate Professor Emeritus of History at the University at Albany (SUNY). Dr. Ellinwood earned his Ph.D. in History from Washington University.
...the author has accomplished the substantial effort needed to make appropriate selections from Amar Sing's voluminous diary linked by extensive commentary in a thorough and excellent manner. The selections provide a good sense of the variety and depth of the information and insights that the diary offers.
Ellinwood has ended up providing a rich introduction to the culture and politics of the Raj and its armed forces in the first decades of the twentieth century. The bibliography is extensive, the tone of the test conversational and informative, and the uninitiated reader will finda sure guide to the pecularities and intricacies of British rule and colonial society, no small achievement. The text is of particular valuefor teaching undergraduates, as it provides a seductive mis of first person experience with Ellinwood's summaries of relevant scholarship. Military specialists will find extensive discussion of Indianization, coupled with Amar Singh's often reserved observations of the treatment he received as well as portraits of sympathetic British officers.
Between Two Worlds [is] a welcome addition to the literature on British India's military. …[this] balanced and well documented work [can be seen] as a corrective for those who argue that the similarities between Britain and India's aristocracy played a more important role than race and gender in the workings of the Raj.
DeWitt C. Ellinwood, Jr. is Associate Professor Emeritus of History at the University at Albany (SUNY). Dr. Ellinwood earned his Ph.D. in History from Washington University.