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Book Synopsis The Maharaja & the Princely States of India by : Sharada Dwivedi
Download or read book The Maharaja & the Princely States of India written by Sharada Dwivedi and published by Roli Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Descendents of some of the rulers of the former princely states of India; includes a brief ancestral lineage.
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 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 Illustrated Encyclopaedia & Who's who of Princely States in Indian Sub-continent by : J. C. Dua
Download or read book Illustrated Encyclopaedia & Who's who of Princely States in Indian Sub-continent written by J. C. Dua and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever Since The Indian Independence It Has Been Normally Understood That The Indian States And Estates Which Numbered Six Hundred On 15Th August 1947 Were The Symbols Of Incompetence, Oppression And Vices. The States Has A Very Peculiar Status In The Political Theory Which Grew Up In India In The 19Th Century. They Did Not Form Part Of The British Indian Empire Nor Were They Sovereign Powers. The State Were Neither Feudatories Of The Government Of India, Nor Protectorates And Nor Merely Allies Either. The Present Publication Contains The Biographical Sketches Of The Princes And Leading Officials And Non-Officials Of The Erstwhile States And Estates Of Indian Sub-Continent. Author Intends To Show That They Symbolised Progressiveness And Also The Conservators Of Indian Social And Cultural Traditions. The Detailed Introduction Sets Forth The Historical Context And An Analytical Framework. The Book Is Going To Make A Lively Study Of The Laymen As Well As Serious Students Of History. The Detailed Introduction Sets Forth The Historical Context And An Analytical Framework. Contents Section-I : Princes Of India Salute States; Alirajpur, Alwar, Bahawalpur, Banganapalle, Bansda, Baoni (Kadaura), Baria, Baroda, Benares, Bharatpur, Bhavnagar, Bhopal, Bhor, Bijawar, Bikaner, Bilaspur (Kahlur), Cambay, Chamba, Chhatarpur, Chhota Udaipur, Cochin, Cooch Behar, Cutch, Datia, Dewas (Junior), Dewas (Senior), Dhar, Dharampur, Dholpur, Dungarpur, Faridkot, Gondal Gwalior, Hyderabad, Idar, Indore, Jaipur, Jaisalmer, Jammu And Kashmir, Janjira, Jaora, Jawhar, Jhabua, Jhalawar, Jind, Jodhpur, Junagarh, Kalahandi, Kalat, Kapurthala, Karauli, Kishangarh, Kolhapur, Kotah, Kutch, Loharu, Lunawada, Malerkotla, Mandi, Manipur, Mayurbhanj, Mewar, Morvi, Mudhol, Mysore, Nabha, Nagod, Narsingarh, Nawanagar, Orchha (Tikamgarh), Palanpur, Palitana, Panna, Partabgarh, Patiala, Patna, Porbandar, Pudukottai, Radhanpur, Rajgarh, Rajkot, Rajpipla, Rampur, Tatlam, Rewa, Sachin, Sailana, Samthar, Sangli, Sant, Shahpura, Sirmoor, Sirohi, Sitamau, Sonepur, Suket, Tehri-Garhwal, Tonk, Travancore, Tripura, Udaipur, Wankaner; Section-Ii: Princes Of India Non-Saluted States; Akalkot, Ambliara, Anandpur Taluka, Athgarh, Athmalik, Aundh, Baghat, Bamra, Bantwa Taluka, Baramba, Baramba, Barwala Taluka, Baudh, Bhadarwa, Bihat, Bonai, Chhaliar, Chhuikhandan, Daspalla, Dedhrota Taluka, Dhami, Dehnkanal, Gad Boriad,Gangpur, Garrauli, Ghodasar, Hapa Taluka, Hindol, Ichalkaranji, Ilol, Jambughoda, Jamkhandi, Jasdan, Jath, Jobat, Jubbal, Kadoli Taluka, Kalsia, Kawardha, Keonjhar, Khairagarh, Khandpara, Kharsawan, Khedawada Taluka, Khirasra, Korea, Kushalgarh, Kuthar, Lathi, Likhi, Malpur, Mandwa, Mirja (Junior), Mirja (Senior), Nalagarh (Hindur), Narsingpur, Naswadi, Nayagarh, Nilgiri, Palasni, Pal-Lahara, Pataudi, Pethapur, Phaltan, Poonch, Punadra, Raigarh, Rairakhol, Ramas, Ramdrug, Ranasan, Ratanmal, Sanor, Sarangarh, Sarila, Savanpur, Seraikela, Sihora, Sirguja, Swat, Talcher, Vadagam, Vadia, Valasna, Wadi Estate; Section-Iii: Who S Who In India; Leading Officials And Non-Officials, Ministers, Members Of Legislature, Zamindars & Other Personages; Section-Iv: Supplementary Section.
Book Synopsis The Satapur Moonstone by : Sujata Massey
Download or read book The Satapur Moonstone written by Sujata Massey and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The highly anticipated follow-up to the critically acclaimed novel The Widows of Malabar Hill. India, 1922: It is rainy season in the lush, remote Sahyadri mountains, where the princely state of Satapur is tucked away. A curse seems to have fallen upon Satapur’s royal family, whose maharaja died of a sudden illness shortly before his teenage son was struck down in a tragic hunting accident. The state is now ruled by an agent of the British Raj on behalf of Satapur’s two maharanis, the dowager queen and her daughter-in-law. The royal ladies are in a dispute over the education of the young crown prince, and a lawyer’s counsel is required. However, the maharanis live in purdah and do not speak to men. Just one person can help them: Perveen Mistry, Bombay’s only female lawyer. Perveen is determined to bring peace to the royal house and make a sound recommendation for the young prince’s future, but she arrives to find that the Satapur palace is full of cold-blooded power plays and ancient vendettas. Too late, she realizes she has walked into a trap. But whose? And how can she protect the royal children from the palace’s deadly curse?
Download or read book Made for Maharajas written by Amin Jaffer and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based equally in the archives of firms such as Louis Vuitton, Boucheron, Chaumet and Hermès, and in palace and private collections, this book explores the role of maharajas in an age of high spending and fashion. It brings together original designs with surviving objects, exploring for the first time the creative dialogue between Indian princes and the skilled tradesmen who produced wonders for their delectation. Married to the objects themselves are the absorbing and often humourous accounts of how maharajas indulged their tastes with unparalleled extravagance and aplomb.
Book Synopsis The Progressive Maharaja by : Rahul Sagar
Download or read book The Progressive Maharaja written by Rahul Sagar and published by Hurst Publishers. This book was released on 2022-05-25 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hints on the Art and Science of Government was the first treatise on statecraft produced in modern India. It consists of lectures that Raja Sir T. Madhava Rao delivered in 1881 to Sayaji Rao Gaekwad III, the young Maharaja of Baroda. Universally considered the foremost Indian statesman of the nineteenth century, Madhava Rao had served as dewan (or prime minister) in the native states of Travancore, Indore and Baroda. Under his command, Travancore and Baroda came to be seen as ‘model states’, whose progress demonstrated that Indians were capable of governing well. Rao’s lectures summarise the fundamental principles underlying his unprecedented success. He explains how and why a Maharaja ought to marry the classical Indian ideal of raj dharma, which enjoins rulers to govern dutifully, with the modern English ideal of limited sovereignty. This makes Hints an exceptionally important text: it shows how, outside the confines of British India, Indians consciously and creatively sought to revise and adapt ideals in the interests of progress. This landmark edition contains both the newly rediscovered, original lecture manuscripts; and an authoritative introduction, outlining Rao’s remarkable career, his complicated relationship with Sayaji Rao III, and the reasons why his lectures have been neglected–until now.
Book Synopsis Integration of the Indian States by : Vapal P. Menon
Download or read book Integration of the Indian States written by Vapal P. Menon and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reprint of a book which relates the extremely interesting and important story of how the political and administrative consolidation of India was brought about swiftly and peacefully.
Download or read book Maharaja written by Andrew Robinson and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2009 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the annals of world history there are few more striking tales than those of Princely India. The Maharajas became bywords for excess, for lifetimes spent in extravagant expenditure and splendour on an almost unparalleled scale. The Princes, their palaces and feudal loyalties live on, and the full gorgeous spectacle of their life-style is captured for perhaps the last time in the pages of this book. This is very much a visual story, full of dazzling colours: a story of throne rooms with gilded and painted ceilings, crystal fountains and peacocks in terraced gardens, gold and silver treasures, of weddings, celebrations and festivals, and of the Maharajas themselves and their families, in public and in private.
Book Synopsis Conquering the maharajas by : Harrison Akins
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.
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 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Book Synopsis False Allies 2021 by : Manu S. Pillai
Download or read book False Allies 2021 written by Manu S. Pillai and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this brilliantly researched book, Manu S. Pillai uncovers a picture of the Indian princes far removed from the existing cliches and reminds us that the maharajahs were serious political actors - essential to knowing modern India.
Download or read book Maharajas written by Charles Allen and published by Mercury Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating celebration of the splendour of Princely India.
Book Synopsis Prince Patron and Patriarch by : Brigadier H. H. Sukhjit Singh
Download or read book Prince Patron and Patriarch written by Brigadier H. H. Sukhjit Singh and published by Roli Books. This book was released on 2019-09-27 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historical crossroads which saw India's transition from British Imperial rule to Independence and a democracy, coincided with the fascinating life of Maharaja Jagatjit Singh, the last ruler of the erstwhile Princely State of Kapurthala (1872-1949). He was witness to some of the most epochal events, both within India and across the global stage during his distinguished reign, which spanned almost 60 years. Maharaja Jagatjit Singh was held in universal esteem and still commands respect as one of the best-known and most legendary of the ruling Indian princes of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Prince, Patron and Patriarch explores the many hues and dimensions of his life, character, and achievements, encapsulated as a renowned traveler, an erudite ruler, a Francophile, and a benevolent patriarch, devoted to his family and his constituents. This book recreates his abundant life and gracious world by surveying the aesthetics and geo-political events of Kapurthala State under his patronage. The monograph of this extraordinary life and dynamic personality is presented with components of a family album, historic journal, along with a design diary owing to the Maharaja's renown as an aficionado of architecture. It also bears elements of a personal memoir, owed largely to the insights shared by Brigadier Sukhjit Singh, who vividly reminisces about his illustrious grandfather.
Book Synopsis SAYAJIRAO GAEKWAD III by : Uma Balasubramaniam
Download or read book SAYAJIRAO GAEKWAD III written by Uma Balasubramaniam and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Maharaja sayajirao gaekwad III of Baroda state Tower over all the other rulers of princely states in British India. The book not only documents how a Maratha farmer's son became a Maharaja by a twist of fate, but also reveals interesting details about how the 'favourite son' Of the British Empire found himself on the brink of being deposed by the British.
Book Synopsis Cooking of the Maharajas by : Shivaji Rao Holkar
Download or read book Cooking of the Maharajas written by Shivaji Rao Holkar and published by Viking Adult. This book was released on 1975 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis No Elephants for the Maharaja by : Louise Ouwerkerk
Download or read book No Elephants for the Maharaja written by Louise Ouwerkerk and published by Manohar Publishers and Distributors. This book was released on 1994 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In commemoration of the old hunting parties of the Maharaja of Travancore used to lead a silent procession adorned by gorgeously caparisoned elephants from the temple in Trivandrum to the sea beach. Blood had been shed in the hunt and the gods must be purified by a bath in the sea. After Independence the former Maharaja still made regular visits to the same temple in his ancient Rolls-Royce. But the pomp and ceremony of the Princely rule were gone and there were no elephants for the Maharaja. This change symbolizes the larger transformations in Travancore documented in this book. In 1921 Travancore was still ruled by an all-powerful Dewan. Local Hindus, Muslims and Christians pressed for greater participation in the state administration by appealing to loyalties of caste and religion. The result was a strong communalism which clever Dewans could make use of as part of a policy of divide-and-rule. Louise Ouwerkerk dwells extensively on these developments which led to the formation of the Travancore State Congress in which she was personally involved. From 1929-1939 Louise Ouwekerk was Professor at the Maharaja's Women's College and Travancore University. Although a Government servant, she threw herself into politics and tried to unite the communal leaders on a common platform for more responsible government. As these attempts brought her into conflict with the Dewan, she was dismissed from service. In the early 1970s she wrote the text for this book, largely based on her own files and recollections, supplemented by interviews. She died in 1989. Dick Kooiman, who found the unpublished manuscript among her personal papers, edited the text for publication and wrote an introduction. In spite of Louise's own active involvement, she has succeeded in keeping that critical distance which makes reading her history both entertaining and rewarding. Her work still stands as a major piece of research by a keen, contemporary eye-witness and makes excellent reading as narrative history, rich in its description of local personalities and developments.
