Lieutenant-Colonel James Tod was an officer of the British East India Company and an Oriental 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.
The frontispiece of the 1920 edition of Tod's Annals and Antiquities of Rajast'han
Painting of James Tod with his Jain guru, Yati Gyanchandra. Artist: Ghasi, Rajputana
Etching of Tod fishing in the Banas River in Rajasthan
Painting dated October 1882, showing Tod seated on an elephant. Original inscription: Kaptan Jems Tad Sahab (master), is riding from Udaipur to the Dabok Bungalow. Guru Gyanchandra rides also.
RÄjputana, meaning Land of the Rajputs, was a region in the Indian subcontinent that included mainly the present-day Indian state of Rajasthan, as well as parts of Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat, and some adjoining areas of Sindh in modern-day southern Pakistan.
Flag of Rajputs
Rajputana States
Image: Rajputana 1909