Rajeshwari Dutt
Biographic Data
| ID | 685620 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rajeshwari Dutt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rajeshwari |
| FAMILY NAME | Dutt |
| SIGNATURE | DUTT R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Technology Mandi |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1935 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Tweed venture
Adriana Chira. Patchwork Freedoms
E mancipation and I mperialism in a B orderland
This article points to the 1820s as a crucial period that saw a great reversal in the location of sovereignty in Belize. The article employs two inflection points—first, an 1822 case of ‘Indian’ slaves from Mosquito Shore, and second, slave desertion in 1825—to point to unprecedented challenges to settler sovereignty over slavery in Belize that arose during the 1820s. While British amelioration allowed the metropolitan government to bring frontie…
Christie’s House
Using the example of an unbuilt house in San Juan del Norte on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua in 1849, this essay argues for mining for instances of failures in the colonial archives to demonstrate the limits of imperial control in the nineteenth-century frontier and borderland regions of empire. Such studies can be a useful counterpoint to the narrative of imperial success and climax in the global nineteenth century
Negotiating Heritage through Education and Archaeology
If true historical scholarship is about linking the present to the past and impelling the reader to take action in the here and now, then Alicia Ebbitt McGill's book—a culmination of over 15 years of ethnographic research in Crooked Tree and Biscayne, two Kriol communities of north-central Belize—more than delivers. McGill argues that archaeology and education are intersecting and interconnected institutions through which both official heritage a…
Empire on Edge
How does empire operate in frontiers and borderlands during times of conflict? Empire on Edge reveals how British officials attempted, during the second half of the nineteenth century, to understand and impose order on northern Belize, an area that was both a frontier of colonial power and the locus of a disputed border with Mexico. Their efforts were complicated by the local ramifications of Yucatán's Caste War (1847–1901), a long-lasting, viole…
Conflict and Carnage in Yucatán
Douglas Richmond's book contributes to the historiography of nineteenth-century Yucatán, Mexico, by adding to the scholarship on liberalism and Yucatecan politics by scholars such as Melchor Campos García, Pedro Bracamonte y Sosa, Arturo Güémez Pineda, Terry Rugeley, and Karen Caplan, among others. The originality of the book lies in its reassessment of the period of the Second Empire under Maximilian I (1864–67)—a brief but significant interlude…
Loyal Subjects at Empire's Edge
This essay juxtaposes the trial of a prominent Hispanic, Manuel Jesús Castillo, in 1882 with the celebrations of the centenary of St. George's Caye in 1898 to gain a deeper understanding of the methods employed by officials in Belize to impose order on the complex post-Caste War society there in a way that was materially and politically advantageous to colonial rule at the nineteenth century's end. Colonial officials used the language and theme o…
Archaeology, Indigenous Communities, and the State
Book Review| November 01 2017 Archaeology, Indigenous Communities, and the State: Janus-faced Approaches The Pursuit of Ruins: Archaeology, History, and the Making of Modern Mexico by Christina Bueno. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2016. vii + 267 pp.; illustrations, notes, bibliography, index; clothbound, $95.00; paperbound, $29.95.Maya Cultural Heritage: How Archaeologists and Indigenous Communities Engage the Past by Patricia A. …
Business As Usual
On September 13, 1849, Yucatecan forces at Chac Creek, near the port city of Bacalar (in present-day Quintana Roo), stopped and searched a vessel named Four Sisters , owned by the Belizean merchant, Austin W. Cox. Inside they uncovered kegs containing 73 arrobas (25-pound kegs) of gunpowder and 16 arrobas of lead. Manned by three black men, the vessel also carried a Maya on whom the search party found incriminating evidence, in the form of a lett…
Crossing Over
In this article I delve into the life story of one particular cacique (indigenous leader), Angelino Uicab of the town of Teya, during a particularly significant period in the history of Yucatán: the Caste War. Focusing on the 1840s and 1850s I use the Uicab case to show how "ordinary," nonrebel caciques engaged in political alliance making on the ground. While traditional renditions of the Caste War represent it as a race war, I show how, for Uic…
Fascism and social revolution
Fascism and Social Revolution
bourgeoisie sees in Bolshevism only one side . . . insurrection, violence, terror; it endeavors, therefore, to prepare itself especially for resistance and opposition in that direction alone. It is possible that in single cases, in single countries, for more or less short periods, they will succeed. We must reckon with such a possibility, and there is absolutely nothing dreadful to us in the fact that the bourgeoisie might succeed in this. Commun…
The Italian Corporative State
E mancipation and I mperialism in a B orderland
This article points to the 1820s as a crucial period that saw a great reversal in the location of sovereignty in Belize. The article employs two inflection points—first, an 1822 case of ‘Indian’ slaves from Mosquito Shore, and second, slave desertion in 1825—to point to unprecedented challenges to settler sovereignty over slavery in Belize that arose during the 1820s. While British amelioration allowed the metropolitan government to bring frontie…
Loyal Subjects at Empire's Edge
This essay juxtaposes the trial of a prominent Hispanic, Manuel Jesús Castillo, in 1882 with the celebrations of the centenary of St. George's Caye in 1898 to gain a deeper understanding of the methods employed by officials in Belize to impose order on the complex post-Caste War society there in a way that was materially and politically advantageous to colonial rule at the nineteenth century's end. Colonial officials used the language and theme o…
Crossing Over
In this article I delve into the life story of one particular cacique (indigenous leader), Angelino Uicab of the town of Teya, during a particularly significant period in the history of Yucatán: the Caste War. Focusing on the 1840s and 1850s I use the Uicab case to show how "ordinary," nonrebel caciques engaged in political alliance making on the ground. While traditional renditions of the Caste War represent it as a race war, I show how, for Uic…
Fascism and social revolution
Fascism and Social Revolution
bourgeoisie sees in Bolshevism only one side . . . insurrection, violence, terror; it endeavors, therefore, to prepare itself especially for resistance and opposition in that direction alone. It is possible that in single cases, in single countries, for more or less short periods, they will succeed. We must reckon with such a possibility, and there is absolutely nothing dreadful to us in the fact that the bourgeoisie might succeed in this. Commun…
The Italian Corporative State
Crossing Over
In this article I delve into the life story of one particular cacique (indigenous leader), Angelino Uicab of the town of Teya, during a particularly significant period in the history of Yucatán: the Caste War. Focusing on the 1840s and 1850s I use the Uicab case to show how "ordinary," nonrebel caciques engaged in political alliance making on the ground. While traditional renditions of the Caste War represent it as a race war, I show how, for Uic…
Archaeology, Indigenous Communities, and the State
Book Review| November 01 2017 Archaeology, Indigenous Communities, and the State: Janus-faced Approaches The Pursuit of Ruins: Archaeology, History, and the Making of Modern Mexico by Christina Bueno. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2016. vii + 267 pp.; illustrations, notes, bibliography, index; clothbound, $95.00; paperbound, $29.95.Maya Cultural Heritage: How Archaeologists and Indigenous Communities Engage the Past by Patricia A. …
Business As Usual
On September 13, 1849, Yucatecan forces at Chac Creek, near the port city of Bacalar (in present-day Quintana Roo), stopped and searched a vessel named Four Sisters , owned by the Belizean merchant, Austin W. Cox. Inside they uncovered kegs containing 73 arrobas (25-pound kegs) of gunpowder and 16 arrobas of lead. Manned by three black men, the vessel also carried a Maya on whom the search party found incriminating evidence, in the form of a lett…
Loyal Subjects at Empire's Edge
This essay juxtaposes the trial of a prominent Hispanic, Manuel Jesús Castillo, in 1882 with the celebrations of the centenary of St. George's Caye in 1898 to gain a deeper understanding of the methods employed by officials in Belize to impose order on the complex post-Caste War society there in a way that was materially and politically advantageous to colonial rule at the nineteenth century's end. Colonial officials used the language and theme o…
Empire on Edge
How does empire operate in frontiers and borderlands during times of conflict? Empire on Edge reveals how British officials attempted, during the second half of the nineteenth century, to understand and impose order on northern Belize, an area that was both a frontier of colonial power and the locus of a disputed border with Mexico. Their efforts were complicated by the local ramifications of Yucatán's Caste War (1847–1901), a long-lasting, viole…
Conflict and Carnage in Yucatán
Douglas Richmond's book contributes to the historiography of nineteenth-century Yucatán, Mexico, by adding to the scholarship on liberalism and Yucatecan politics by scholars such as Melchor Campos García, Pedro Bracamonte y Sosa, Arturo Güémez Pineda, Terry Rugeley, and Karen Caplan, among others. The originality of the book lies in its reassessment of the period of the Second Empire under Maximilian I (1864–67)—a brief but significant interlude…
Christie’s House
Using the example of an unbuilt house in San Juan del Norte on the Caribbean coast of Nicaragua in 1849, this essay argues for mining for instances of failures in the colonial archives to demonstrate the limits of imperial control in the nineteenth-century frontier and borderland regions of empire. Such studies can be a useful counterpoint to the narrative of imperial success and climax in the global nineteenth century
Negotiating Heritage through Education and Archaeology
If true historical scholarship is about linking the present to the past and impelling the reader to take action in the here and now, then Alicia Ebbitt McGill's book—a culmination of over 15 years of ethnographic research in Crooked Tree and Biscayne, two Kriol communities of north-central Belize—more than delivers. McGill argues that archaeology and education are intersecting and interconnected institutions through which both official heritage a…
E mancipation and I mperialism in a B orderland
This article points to the 1820s as a crucial period that saw a great reversal in the location of sovereignty in Belize. The article employs two inflection points—first, an 1822 case of ‘Indian’ slaves from Mosquito Shore, and second, slave desertion in 1825—to point to unprecedented challenges to settler sovereignty over slavery in Belize that arose during the 1820s. While British amelioration allowed the metropolitan government to bring frontie…
The Tweed venture
Adriana Chira. Patchwork Freedoms
Political science (12 works) · History (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Ancient history (6 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · History (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Caste (5 works) · Economic history (5 works)