{"id":18765,"date":"2022-12-02T11:49:49","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T11:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/?p=18765"},"modified":"2022-12-15T15:43:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-15T15:43:16","slug":"a-tribute-for-the-legacy-of-james-tod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/a-tribute-for-the-legacy-of-james-tod\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tribute For The Legacy Of James Tod"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are pleased to introduce this tribute from Dr Shuchi Gupta (CCS University, Meerut), who has generously sponsored the digitization of our manuscript RAS Tod 126, comprising two texts on Indian history and legends. <\/em><\/p>\n

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Dr Shuchi Gupta<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Lieutenant-Colonel James Tod was an officer of the British East India Company and an Oriental scholar. He lived in Rajasthan as Company \u2018Resident\u2019 or political representative to the Rajput courts from 1818-1822, including Mewar, Kota, Sirohi, Bundi, Marwar, and Jaisalmer,<\/em> and studied the local annals. Tod meticulously collected royal genealogies, inscriptions, coins, artefacts, manuscripts and sketches of monuments. He combined his official role and his amateur interests to create a series of works about the history and geography of Rajasthan, which Tod referred to as Rajast’han. Tod published academic works most notably Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan<\/em>, based on materials collected during his travels.<\/p>\n

As a Historian, Tod’s work is part of my journey to know the history of the Indian subcontinent. That’s why this is a great moment in my research journey, to help in the digitization of Tod’s work. My primary motive is to save his work for future generations of researchers.<\/p>\n

I especially want to thank my parents (A. K. Gupta and Saroj Gupta) and both sons (Surya Narayan and Satya Narayan) who inspire and motivate me to do this service.<\/p>\n

I highly appreciate the Royal Asiatic Society, London and its team for their dedication towards historical research.<\/p>\n

Dr Shuchi Gupta<\/p>\n

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Forthcoming re-issue of Tod’s Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

RAS Tod 126 contains Hindusth\u0101n-k\u012b b\u0101dsh\u0101h\u012b-k\u0101 pram\u0101\u1e47 v\u0101 oddh\u0101 k\u0101rkh\u0101n\u0101-k\u012b kit\u0101b (tabulated sketch of administrative offices in the kingdoms of India); and Vikrama-vil\u0101sa (tales of King Vikram\u0101ditya by Mi\u015bra Ga\u1e45ge\u015ba). An inscription records that it was copied for James Tod ‘from Jepur Library, Gwalior 1815.’ The texts therefore appear to have been copied from the library of Maharaja Sawai Jai Singh – Jaipur’s original library. The digitization of this manuscript will be completed soon and we look forward to making it available via the Society\u2019s Digital Library<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The Society is inviting sponsorship to digitize more manuscripts from its collections as part of its bicentenary celebrations in 2023. You can find out more here<\/a>.<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Readers may also wish to note that the Society is publishing a new edition of James Tod\u2019s Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan. The prospectus for the reissue is available <\/em>here<\/em><\/a>. Fellows and friends of the Society are able to subscribe to the anniversary re-issue in advance of its publication for a discounted price. To qualify for the reduced price, full payment must be received by 16 December 2022. Subscribers will have their names published (if they so wish) in the List of Subscribers that will appear in the Companion Volume. Further information on how to subscribe can be found <\/em>here<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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We are pleased to introduce this tribute from Dr Shuchi Gupta (CCS University, Meerut), who has generously sponsored the digitization of our manuscript RAS Tod 126, comprising two texts on Indian history and legends.   Lieutenant-Colonel James Tod was an officer of the British East India Company and an Oriental scholar. He lived in Rajasthan…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5311,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[508,1],"tags":[777,2329,847,544,473,2835],"class_list":["post-18765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collection-highlights","category-uncategorised","tag-annals-and-antiquities-of-rajasthan","tag-bicentenary-appeal","tag-digitization","tag-james-tod","tag-manuscripts","tag-uncategorised"],"acf":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18765"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18770,"href":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18765\/revisions\/18770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royalasiaticsociety.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}