Malavika Kasturi
Associate Professor of History, University of Toronto
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(Oxford University Press, 2002) Embattled Identities: Rajput Lineages and the Colonial State in Nineteenth-Century North India is a study of the encounter between the Rajputs of North India and the British in the nineteenth century with a focus on factors such as caste, kinship, and colonial relations. It examines the reconstitution of Rajput identity through property and inheritance strategies, marriage, female infanticide, feuding, banditry, rebellion and collective violence.