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Book Synopsis The Indian Princes and their States by : Barbara N. Ramusack
Download or read book The Indian Princes and their States written by Barbara N. Ramusack and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-08 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis Princely India and the British by : Caroline Keen
Download or read book Princely India and the British written by Caroline Keen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-05 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the latter part of the nineteenth century,the royal status of Indian princes was under threat in what became a critical period of transition from traditional to imperial rule.Weakened by treaties concluded with the British earlier in the century,the rulers were subject to a concentrated campaign by British officials to turn palace life into a westernised construct of morality,rules and regulations.Young heirs to the throne were exposed to a western education to encourage their enthusiasm for changes in the princely environment.At the same time bureaucracies constructed on the British Indian model were introduced to promote'good government'.In many cases,royal practice and authority were sacrificed in the urgency to install efficient and accountable methods of administration.Adult rulers were frequently sidelined in the intricacies of state politics and the traditional princely power base was steadily eroded. Using the framework of a princely life-cycle,this book evaluates British policy towards the princes during the period 1858-1909. Within this framework Caroline Keen examines disputed successions to Indian thrones,the reaction of young rulers to a western education, princely marriages and the empowerment of royal women,the administration of states,and efforts to alter court hierarchy and ritual to conform to strict British bureaucratic guidelines.A recurring theme is the frequently incompatible relationship between British officials posted to the states and their superiors within the Government of India. Rarely examined archival material is used to provide a detailed analysis of policy-making which deals with British procedure at all levels of officialdom. For scholars and researchers of South Asian and British imperial history this book casts new light upon a highly significant phase of imperial development and makes a major contribution to the understanding of the operation of indirect rule under the Raj.
Book Synopsis Princely India Re-imagined by : Aya Ikegame
Download or read book Princely India Re-imagined written by Aya Ikegame and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: India’s Princely States covered nearly 40 per cent of the Indian subcontinent at the time of Indian independence, and they collapsed after the departure of the British. This book provides a chronological analysis of the Princely State in colonial times and its post-colonial legacies. Focusing on one of the largest and most important of these states, the Princely State of Mysore, it offers a novel interpretation and thorough investigation of the relationship of king and subject in South Asia. The book argues that the denial of political and economic power to the king, especially after 1831 when direct British control was imposed over the state administration in Mysore, was paralleled by a counter-balancing multiplication of kingly ritual, rites, and social duties. The book looks at how, at the very time when kingly authority was lacking income and powers of patronage, its local sources of power and social roots were being reinforced and rebuilt in a variety of ways. Using a combination of historical and anthropological methodologies, and based upon substantial archival and field research, the book argues that the idea of kingship lived on in South India and continues to play a vital and important role in contemporary South Indian social and political life. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.
Book Synopsis The Princes of India in the Endgame of Empire, 1917-1947 by : Ian Copland
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.
Book Synopsis The British Raj and the Indian Princes by : Ian Copland
Download or read book The British Raj and the Indian Princes written by Ian Copland and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis India's Princely States by : Waltraud Ernst
Download or read book India's Princely States written by Waltraud Ernst and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-10-18 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an invaluable collection for scholars working on the princely states of India due to abundance of sources consulted and broad coverage of the subject It includes contributions by authors from Europe/UK, India and North America. Both editors are highly regarded and well reputed scholars. Most contributors are well known researchers in their field It will be of interest to scholarly community in Europe/UK, North America, Asia and Australia where Indian History and Politics is taught
Book Synopsis The Indian Princes and Their States by : Barbara N. Ramusack
Download or read book The Indian Princes and Their States written by Barbara N. Ramusack and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Health and Medicine in the Indian Princely States by : Waltraud Ernst
Download or read book Health and Medicine in the Indian Princely States written by Waltraud Ernst and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Psychiatric provision at Trivandrum in the early twentieth century -- Formal classification and treatment of patients -- Institutional trends and statistics -- The Orissan states - "something rotten somewhere"--Conclusion -- Index
Book Synopsis Inglorious Empire by : Shashi Tharoor
Download or read book Inglorious Empire written by Shashi Tharoor and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2018-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inglorious Empire' tells the real story of the British in India from the arrival of the East India Company to the end of the Raj, revealing how Britain's rise was built upon its plunder of India. In the eighteenth century, India's share of the world economy was as large as Europe's. By 1947, after two centuries of British rule, it had decreased six-fold. Beyond conquest and deception, the Empire blew rebels from cannon, massacred unarmed protesters, entrenched institutionalised racism, and caused millions to die from starvation. British imperialism justified itself as enlightened despotism for the benefit of the governed, but Shashi Tharoor takes on and demolishes this position, demonstrating how every supposed imperial "gift" - from the railways to the rule of law -was designed in Britain's interests alone. He goes on to show how Britain's Industrial Revolution was founded on India's deindustrialisation, and the destruction of its textile industry.
Book Synopsis Indian Princes Under British Protection by : Popatlal L. Chudgar
Download or read book Indian Princes Under British Protection written by Popatlal L. Chudgar and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Hyderabad, British India, and the World by : Eric Lewis Beverley
Download or read book Hyderabad, British India, and the World written by Eric Lewis Beverley and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-06 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of political possibilities in the era of modern imperialism, from the perspective of the sovereign state of Hyderabad.
Book Synopsis The Princely India I Knew, from Reading to Mountbatten by : Sir Conrad Corfield
Download or read book The Princely India I Knew, from Reading to Mountbatten written by Sir Conrad Corfield and published by Madras : Indo British Historical Society. This book was released on 1975 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sovereign Spheres by : Manu Belur Bhagavan
Download or read book Sovereign Spheres written by Manu Belur Bhagavan and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks At Educational Reform In 2 Leading Progressive Princely States In 20Th Century India-Baroda And Mysore. Argues For A Fundamental Remodelling Of Colonial India.
Book Synopsis The British Crown and the Indian States by : India. Chamber of Princes
Download or read book The British Crown and the Indian States written by India. Chamber of Princes and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis How British Rule Changed India’s Economy by : Tirthankar Roy
Download or read book How British Rule Changed India’s Economy written by Tirthankar Roy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-05-18 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Palgrave Pivot revisits the topic of how British colonialism moulded work and life in India and what kind of legacy it left behind. Did British rule lead to India’s impoverishment, economic disruption and famine? Under British rule, evidence suggests there were beneficial improvements, with an eventual rise in life expectancy and an increase in wealth for some sectors of the population and economy, notably for much business and industry. Yet many poor people suffered badly, with agricultural stagnation and an underfunded government who were too small to effect general improvements. In this book Roy explains the paradoxical combination of wealth and poverty, looking at both sides of nineteenth century capitalism. Between 1850 and 1930, India was engaged in a globalization process not unlike the one it has seen since the 1990s. The difference between these two times is that much of the region was under British colonial rule during the first episode, while it was an independent nation state during the second. Roy's narrative has a contemporary relevance for emerging economies, where again globalization has unleashed extraordinary levels of capitalistic energy while leaving many livelihoods poor, stagnant, and discontented.
Book Synopsis Peace, Poverty and Betrayal by : Roderick Matthews
Download or read book Peace, Poverty and Betrayal written by Roderick Matthews and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-06-20 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we explain Britain's long rule in India beyond the cliches of 'imperial' versus 'nationalist' interpretations? In this new history, Roderick Matthews tells a more nuanced story of 'oblige and rule', the foundation of common purpose between colonisers and powerful Indians. Peace, Poverty and Betrayal argues that this was more a state of being than a system: British policy was never clear or consistent; the East India Company went from a manifestly incompetent ruler to, arguably, the world's first liberal government; and among British and Indians alike there were both progressive and conservative attitudes to colonisation. Matthews skilfully illustrates that this very diversity and ambiguity of British-Indian relations also drove the social changes that led to the struggle for independence. Skewering the simplistic binaries that often dominate the debate, Peace, Poverty and Betrayal is a fresh and elegant history of British India.
Book Synopsis True Tales of British India & the Princely States by : Michael Wise
Download or read book True Tales of British India & the Princely States written by Michael Wise and published by In Print Publishing (UK). This book was released on 1993 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
