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The Indian Princes and Their States

Series The New Cambridge History of India, Volume 3.6

Edited by Barbara N. Ramusack

Publication Date 2004

Hardback ISBN-10
0521267277

Hardback ISBN-13
9780521267274

Digital Object Identifier (DOI) 10.1017/CHOL9780521267274

Overview

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.

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Table of Contents

Frontmatter

Introduction: 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?

Epilogue

Bibliographical Essay

Glossary

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