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Author : Yaqoob Khan Bangash
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780199407361
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (73 download)
Download or read book A Princely Affair written by Yaqoob Khan Bangash and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Yaqoob Khan Bangash
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780199066490
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (664 download)
Download or read book A Princely Affair written by Yaqoob Khan Bangash and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On August 15, 1947, West Pakistan was less than half its present size. Nearly a year of negotiations, arguments, threats, and even chance, brought nine princely states into the Pakistani fold. Thereafter followed a long and staggered process of integration. Using hitherto inaccessible primary sources, this path-breaking book completes the story of the creation of Pakistan. In charting the accession and integration of the princely states, this book shows, for the first time in detail, the complicated and often botched processes of the early consolidation of Pakistan. The problems emanating from this early period, haphazard constitutional integration, weak local political forces, the insurgency in Balochistan since 1948, and a weak sense of national identity and citizenship remain with Pakistan today.
Author : Harrison Akins
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 1526167840
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (261 download)
Download or read book Conquering the maharajas written by Harrison Akins and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conquering the maharajas demonstrates that the political and military clashes between the Indian and Pakistani governments and the princely states, a legacy of the layered sovereignty of British indirect rule in India, was a product of the competing ideas of state sovereignty leading up to and following the transfer of power in 1947.
Author : Priyasha Saksena
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192866583
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)
Download or read book Sovereignty, International Law, and the Princely States of Colonial South Asia written by Priyasha Saksena and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-09 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What constitutes a sovereign state in the international legal sphere? This question has been central to international law for centuries. Sovereignty, International Law, and the Princely States of Colonial South Asia provides a compelling exploration of the history of sovereignty through an analysis of the jurisdictional politics involving a specific set of historical legal entities. Governed by local rulers, the princely states of colonial South Asia were subject to British paramountcy whilst remaining legally distinct from directly ruled British India. Their legal status and the extent of their rights remained the subject of feverish debates through the entirety of British colonial rule. This book traces the ways in which the language of sovereignty shaped the discourse surrounding the legal status of the princely states to illustrate how the doctrine of sovereignty came to structure political imagination in colonial South Asia and the framework of the modern Indian state. Opening with a survey of the place of the princely states in the colonial structures of South Asia, Sovereignty, International Law, and the Princely States of Colonial South Asia goes on to illustrate how international lawyers, British politicians, colonial officials, rulers and bureaucrats of princely states, and anti-colonial nationalists in British India used definitions of sovereignty to construct political orders in line with their interests and aspirations. By invoking the vernacular of sovereignty in contrasting ways to support their differing visions of imperial and world order, these actors also attempted to reconfigure the boundaries among the spheres of the national, the imperial, and the international. Throughout the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries, debates and disputes over the princely states continually defined and redefined the concept of sovereignty and international legitimacy in South Asia. Using rich material from the colonial archives,Sovereignty, International Law, and the Princely States of Colonial South Asia conveys an understanding of the history of sovereignty and the construction of the modern Indian nation-state that is still relevant today. A riveting read, this book will be of considerable interest and importance to scholars of international law and South Asia, legal historians, and political scientists.
Author : Morley Callaghan
Publisher : Exile Editions, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9781550966053
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (66 download)
Download or read book The Complete Stories written by Morley Callaghan and published by Exile Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2003 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete short fiction of Morley Callaghan appears as he comes into full recognition as one of the singular storytellers of our time. In four volumes, several stories are collected for the first time, two of which--"An Autumn Penitent” and "In His Own Country”--have been out of print for decades.
Author : John Zubrzycki
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1805260820
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Dethroned written by John Zubrzycki and published by Hurst Publishers. This book was released on 2023-11-02 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 25 July 1947, India's last Viceroy, Lord Louis Mountbatten, stood before the Chamber of Princes in New Delhi and prepared to deliver the most important speech of his career. He had just three weeks to convince more than 550 sovereign princely states--some the size of Britain, some so small that cartographers had trouble locating them--to become part of a free India. Once Britain's most faithful allies, the princes could choose between joining India or Pakistan, or declaring their independence. This is a saga of promises and betrayals, of brinkmanship and intrigue. Mountbatten worked with two of independent India's founding fathers--the country's most senior civil servant, V.P. Menon, and Congress strongman Vallabhbhai Patel--to save the subcontinent from self-destruction. What India's architects described as a 'bloodless revolution' was anything but, as violence engulfed Kashmir and Indian troops put an end to Hyderabad's dreams of independence. Most states accepted the inevitable, giving up their kingdoms in exchange for guarantees that their privileges and titles would be preserved in perpetuity. Instead, they were led to their extinction--not by the sword, but by political expediency, leaving them with little more than fading memories of a glorified past.
Author : Ian Copland
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521894364
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (943 download)
Download or read book The Princes of India in the Endgame of Empire, 1917-1947 written by Ian Copland and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-16 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating study of the role played by the Indian princes in the devolution of British colonial power.
Author : Pippa Virdee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108606342
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)
Download or read book From the Ashes of 1947 written by Pippa Virdee and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book revisits the partition of the British Indian province of Punjab, its attendant violence and, as a consequence, the divided and dislocated Punjabi lives. Navigating nostalgia and trauma, dreams and laments, identity(s) and homeland(s), it explores the partition of the very idea of Punjabiyat. It was Punjab (along with Bengal) that was divided to create the new nations of India and Pakistan. In subsequent years, religious and linguistic sub-divisions followed - arguably, no other region of the sub-continent has had its linguistic and ethnic history submerged within respective national and religious identity(s). None paid the price of partition like the pluralistic, pre-partition Punjab. This work analyses the dissonance, distortion and dilution witnessed by Punjab and presents a detailed narrative of its past.
Author : T.C.A. Raghavan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1787382591
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)
Download or read book The People Next Door written by T.C.A. Raghavan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the seven decades of the India-Pakistan relationship since the bloody Partition of the subcontinent in 1947. Events, anecdotes and personalities drive its narrative to illustrate the cocktail of hostility, nationalism and nostalgia that defines every facet of Indo-Pakistani relations. T.C.A. Raghavan illuminates the main events of this tumultuous dynamic through the eyes and words of key players and contemporary observers. He exposes how, in both countries, this shared past is seen through radically different prisms; how history keeps resurfacing, with unavoidable resonance, to this day. The People Next Door digs beneath the obvious political, military and security issues, evoking other perspectives: divided families and unwavering friendships; peacemakers, war-mongers, and contrarian thinkers; intellectual and cultural associations; the footprint of Bollywood; cricket and literature--all are an intrinsic part of this most profoundly tangled of relationships.
Author : Yasmin Khan
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300233647
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)
Download or read book The Great Partition written by Yasmin Khan and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-04 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reappraisal of the tumultuous Partition and how it ignited long-standing animosities between India and Pakistan This new edition of Yasmin Khan’s reappraisal of the tumultuous India-Pakistan Partition features an introduction reflecting on the latest research and on ways in which commemoration of the Partition has changed, and considers the Partition in light of the current refugee crisis. Reviews of the first edition: “A riveting book on this terrible story.”—Economist “Unsparing. . . . Provocative and painful.”—Times (London) “Many histories of Partition focus solely on the elite policy makers. Yasmin Khan’s empathetic account gives a great insight into the hopes, dreams, and fears of the millions affected by it.”—Owen Bennett Jones, BBC
Author : Pierre Terjanian
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300176315
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (763 download)
Download or read book Princely Armor in the Age of Dürer written by Pierre Terjanian and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This...publication examines two masterful armors for horse and man acquired in 2009 by the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Among the earliest complete European examples in existence, these German works demonstrate the superior design and craftsmanship of princely armor in the early sixteenth century. The celebrated master Wilhelm von Worms the Edler...of Nuremberg made the luxurious, exquisitely decorated steel horse armor for Duke Ulrich of Württemberg (148701550). The man's armor was crafted by Matthes Deutsch...of Landshut, another distinguished armorer patronized by German princes...."--Front inside flap of dust jacket.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Hyderabad Affairs written by and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Royal Arch Masons. Grand Chapter of the State of Wisconsin
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 872 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Proceedings of the Grand Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, of the State of Wisconsin written by Royal Arch Masons. Grand Chapter of the State of Wisconsin and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stern
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004669256
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book The Cat and the Lion written by Stern and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Morley Callaghan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book Stories written by Morley Callaghan and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Partha Chatterjee
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691090313
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)
Download or read book A Princely Impostor? written by Partha Chatterjee and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2002-03-24 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1921 a traveling religious man appeared in eastern British Bengal. Soon residents began to identify this half-naked and ash-smeared sannyasi as none other than the Second Kumar of Bhawal--a man believed to have died twelve years earlier, at the age of twenty-six. So began one of the most extraordinary legal cases in Indian history. The case would rivet popular attention for several decades as it unwound in courts from Dhaka and Calcutta to London. This narrative history tells an incredible story replete with courtroom drama, sexual debauchery, family intrigue, and squandered wealth. With a novelist's eye for interesting detail, Partha Chatterjee sifts through evidence found in official archives, popular songs, and backstreet Bangladeshi bookshops. He evaluates the case of the man claiming, with the support of legions of tenants and relatives, to be the long-lost Kumar. And he considers the position of the sannyasi's detractors, including the colonial government and the Kumar's young widow, who resolutely refused to meet the man she denounced as an impostor. Along the way, Chatterjee introduces us to a fascinating range of human character, gleans insights into the nature of human identity, and examines the relation between scientific evidence, legal truth, and cultural practice. The story he tells unfolds alongside decades of Indian history. Its plot is shaped by changing gender and class relations and punctuated by critical historical events, including the onset of World War II, the Bengal famine of 1943, and the Great Calcutta Killings. And by identifying the earliest erosion of colonialism and the growth of nationalist thinking within the organs of colonial power, Chatterjee also gives us a secret history of Indian nationalism.
Author : Josef Škvorecký
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393308495
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (84 download)
Download or read book The Miracle Game written by Josef Škvorecký and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1992 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This energetic and hilarious novel is made even more important by the current final thawing of the long, Communist winter in Czechoslovakia. Moving between 1948, when our hero Danny Smiricky falls asleep in church while a miraculous event occurs, and 1968, when he observes the miracle of Prague Spring, The Miracle Game is a sharp look at the strange, sad, and silly things people do to survive.
