The northern state of Rajasthan, India, has been successfully marketed as the nation's most heritage-laden, traditional and authentic. This draws heavily on the late 19th and early 20th century years of British rule in India - the Raj. This book explores the cultural politics of tourism in this region through interdisciplinary perspectives. 'These studies of tourism to Rajasthan raise our understanding of the phenomenon to a new level. They reach beyond the issues of cultural and mass tourism and their impact. The authors show how complex and contingent tourism practices and representations are not only for the outside tourists (most of them now Indians), but from the point of view of Rajasthanis themselves. These essays, taken together, also provide as interesting a snapshot of the diverse and overlapping changes taking place in India today as one could hope to find.' Ronald Inden, University of Chicago, USA '...Raj Rhapsodies is a timely addition to studies on India and Rajasthan. After Edensor's work on the Taj, it is the first project that attempts a scholarly examination of tourism at an Indian site, and will help in bringing tourism as a category of study into the fields of art history, urban planning, architecture, and religious studies particularly in the South Asian context.' H-Travel 'This is an interesting book that provides a useful contribution to the field of tourism studies in general and, more specifically, to current debates on tourism, heritage and culture. In particular, it addresses the ways in which Rajasthan is promoted, re-presented, and experienced for, and by, tourists.' Cultural Geography