James Tod
1782-1835, English officer of the British East India Company and an Oriental scholar
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About James Tod
Lieutenant-Colonel James Tod was a British army officer and scholar. He combined his official role and his amateur interests to create a series of works about the history and geography of India, and in particular the area then known as Rajputana that corresponds to the present day state of Rajasthan, and which Tod referred to as Rajast'han.
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