The Indian princes and their states / Barbara N. Ramusack.

By:

Ramusack, Barbara N

Material type: Text

TextSeries: New Cambridge history of India ; III, 6.Publication details: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 309 pages) : illustrations, mapContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781139053969
1139053965
0511165889
9780511165887
9780511164217
0511164211
9780511163623
0511163622
0511165552
9780511165559
9781139053969
9780511165016
0511165013
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9781107141391
0521056020
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1280437502
9781280437502
0511312571
9780511312571

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Indian princes and their states.DDC classification:

954.03 22

LOC classification:

DS436 .N47 1987eb pt. 3, vol. 6

Other classification:

15.75

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Contents:

Indian princes and British imperialism -- Princely states prior to 1800 -- The British construction of indirect rule -- The theory and experience of indirect rule in colonial India -- Princes as men, women, rulers, patrons, and Oriental stereotypes -- Princely states : administrative and economic structures -- Princely states : society and politics -- Federation or integration?

In: New Cambridge history of India no:3.6Review: "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 integration of the princely states after independence. Ramusack's synthesis has a broad temporal span, tracing the evolution of the Indian kings from their precolonial origins to their roles as clients in the British colonial system. The book breaks new 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 significant 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."--Jacket.

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"Bibliographical essay": pages 281-293.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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 integration of the princely states after independence. Ramusack's synthesis has a broad temporal span, tracing the evolution of the Indian kings from their precolonial origins to their roles as clients in the British colonial system. The book breaks new 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 significant 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."--Jacket.