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Also known as Lieutenant-Colonel James Tod

1782-1835, English officer of the British East India Company and an Oriental scholar

Person · Open Library

Born
1782
Died
1835
Works
18

Top works

  • Annals and antiquities of Rajastʼhan, or the central and western Rajpoot states of India
  • Annals and antiquities of Rajastʼhan
  • On the religious establishments of Méwar
  • Annals and antiquities of Rajast'han
  • The annals and antiquities of Rajasthan

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Quotes

  • [Once in a while, ladies with courage and virtue, stood up against the royal advances like the wife of Prithviraj Singh, Rae Singh's younger brother. She was a princess of Mewar and once on returning from the fair found herself entangled amidst the labyrinth of apartments at the end of which Akbar stood before her,] “but instead of acquiesence, she drew a poniard from her corset and held it to his breast, dictating, and making him repeat the oath of rununciation of the infamy of all her race".
  • Ujameda, by his wife, Nila, had five sons, who spread their branches on both sides of the Indus. Regarding three the Puranas are silent, which implies their migration to distant regions. Is it possible they might be the origin of the Medes? These Medes are descendants of Yciyat, third son of the patriarch, Menu: and Madai, founder of the Medes, was of Japhet’s line. Aja Merle, the patronymic of the branch of Bajaswa, is from Aja ‘a goat.’ The Assyrian Mede in Scripture is typified by the goat.‘
  • If devotion to the fair sex be admitted as a criterion of civilization, the Rajpoot must rank high. His susceptibility is extreme, and fires at the slightest offense to female delicacy, which he never forgives.

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