Author: William Lee-Warner
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 438

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Author: Barbara N. Ramusack
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139449087
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325

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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.

Author: Lucy Moore
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101174838
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 407

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Until the 1920s, to be a Maharani, wife to the Maharajah, was to be tantalizingly close to the power and glamour of the Raj, but locked away in purdah as near chattel. Even the educated, progressive Maharani of Baroda, Chimnabai—born into the aftermath of the 1857 Indian Mutiny—began her marriage this way, but her ravishing daughter, Indira, had other ideas. She became the Regent of Cooch Behar, one of the wealthiest regions of India while her daughter, Ayesha, was elected to the Indian Parliament. The lives of these influential women embodied the delicate interplay between rulers and ruled, race and culture, subservience and independence, Eastern and Western ideas, and ancient and modern ways of life in the bejeweled exuberance of Indian aristocratic life in the final days both of the Raj, and the British Empire. Tracing these larger than life characters as they bust every known stereotype, Lucy Moore creates a vivid picture of an emerging modern, democratic society in India and the tumultous period of Imperialism from which it arose. Through the sumptuous, adventurous lives of three generations of Indian queens—from the period following the Indian Mutiny of 1857 to the present, Lucy Moore traces the cultural and political changes that transformed their world.

Author: William Lee-Warner
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 422

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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Author: Sir William Lee-Warner
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Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: John Johnson Craighead
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780961983925
Category : Falconers
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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300 copies printed in a "Patron's" edition; half leather bound, slipcased, with handmade marbled endpapers and an original 5 x 7 color print of the authors, taken during the trip. ($320.00)

Author: Ian Copland
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521894364
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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A fascinating study of the role played by the Indian princes in the devolution of British colonial power.

Author: William Lee-Warner
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ISBN: 9781375650762
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418

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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 632

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