India of the Princes
Author | : Rosita Forbes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1941 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Rosita Forbes |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1941 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ian Copland |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2002-05-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521894364 |
A fascinating study of the role played by the Indian princes in the devolution of British colonial power.
Author | : Barbara N. Ramusack |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 325 |
Release | : 2004-01-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139449087 |
Although the princes of India have been caricatured as oriental despots and British stooges, Barbara Ramusack's study argues that the British did not create the princes. On the contrary, many were consummate politicians who exercised considerable degrees of autonomy until the disintegration of the princely states after independence. Ramusack's synthesis has a broad temporal span, tracing the evolution of the Indian kings from their pre-colonial origins to their roles as clients in the British colonial system. The book breaks ground in its integration of political and economic developments in the major princely states with the shifting relationships between the princes and the British. It represents a major contribution, both to British imperial history in its analysis of the theory and practice of indirect rule, and to modern South Asian history, as a portrait of the princes as politicians and patrons of the arts.
Author | : Louis Rousselet |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 844 |
Release | : 1876 |
Genre | : Bengal (India) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Waltraud Ernst |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 450 |
Release | : 2007-10-18 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134119879 |
This is an invaluable work looking into new areas relating to India's princely states. Based on an abundance of rarely used archival material, the book sheds new light on diversities related to the princely states such as health policies and practices, gender issues, the states’ military contribution or the mechanisms for controlling or integrating the states. Contributions are from international, reputable scholars, and they present historiographic, analytical and methodological approaches, placing attention to concepts, theories and sources. Inter-disciplinary in nature, this book will appeal to scholars and researchers of South Asia, studies of transnational histories, cultural and racial studies, international politics and economic history and the social history of health and medicine.
Author | : Charles Allen |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 278 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : 9780099465300 |
Author | : Edward John 1886-1946 Thompson |
Publisher | : Hassell Street Press |
Total Pages | : 328 |
Release | : 2021-09-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781013482892 |
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Author | : Sir Roper Lethbridge |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : India |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Manohar Malgonkar |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 409 |
Release | : 2022-12-02 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9356290865 |
India, 1938. The life of Abhayraj, the heir of Maharaj Hiroji, the ruler of the princely state of Begwad, is not unlike that of many young princes caught between two worlds-indeed, two eras. On the one hand are the traditions of the feudal, close-knit community ruled by his father that he is bound to follow, and on the other the pressures of independence as British dominion over begins to wane. Seeking a path of his own, Abhay joins the Indian army and fights in the Burma campaign during World War II. On his return, however, he is forced into a conventional marriage, and after his father's dramatic death becomes the Maharaja, to rule for just forty-nine days before he is compelled to merge his state with free India in 1948. Hailed as an unusual historical saga at the time of its release, The Princes was first published in New York in 1963 and was selected by the Literary Guild of America as a novel of the month that year. Available now in a beautiful new edition, it offers an enthralling, intimate glimpse into life in India's princely states through the story of a royal family caught in a struggle for survival, in a nation embracing democracy for the very first time.
Author | : Sandeep Bamzai |
Publisher | : Rupa Publications India Pvt Limited |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9789353338190 |
In the run-up to independence, a vile plan was devised by a handful of powerful princes to not join either India or Pakistan. The plan was led by the chancellor of the chamber of princes, Nawab of Bhopal, who was operating under the patronage of Mohd. Ali Jinnah, Lord Wavell and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The idea was to create a Third Dominion called Princestan where the 565 princely states would stay outside the ambit of the two free states and retain paramountcy under the aegis of the departing British. The success of such a malevolent plan would have made the newly independent nation unstable and vulnerable.