Using previously unpublished archival material, this book gives new insight into the operation of empire in India in the period 1870-1909 by providing a detailed analysis of British policy towards the princely states. It will be invaluable reading for scholars of South Asian and British imperial ...
Royalty in Colonial and Post-Colonial India: A Historical Anthropology of Mysore from 1799 to the present This dissertation aims to combat the general neglect into which the study of Indian princely states has fallen. Covering nearly 40% of the Indian subcontin... A Ikegame 被引量: 3发表: ...
years, completely collapsed into a Free Indian Republic in the north, proclaimed in Calcutta, a Indian-alignedRepublic of Burma,proclaimed in Rangoon, and the remnants of the British administration in Southern India, consisting of the former Raj itself,Ceylonand the Princely States ofHyderabadand...
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The 1935 Government of India Act had provided for the establishment of provincial legislatures across the colony. The Act also created a federal government for the provinces and princely states and granted the right to vote to about 10% of India's male population.12 These moves toward ...
The August 1947 transfer of power in India brought to the fore questions regarding the future of the areas which had long been leased by the government of India from certain princely states. Focusing on the Gilgit Agency, parts of which were leased from the state of Jammu and Kashmir, this...
Rather, it was focused on the politics of British India and did not mention the politics of Kashmir or any other of the so-called “Princely States” or “Native States” of “Indian India” who constituted some 1/3rd of the land mass and 1/4th of the population of the subcontinent. ...
At the time when British arrived in India, India was divided into several princely states ruled by different rulers. It was quite an easy task for the British to establish itself gradually and astutely. They very cleverly implemented the policy of Divide and Rule in India and took benefit of...
1 By way of comparison, the Indian territories that came under direct British rule in 1859 numbered [End Page 233] 2.5 million square kilometers and 145 million people, while the princely states that acknowledged British suzerainty comprised another 1.5 million square kilometers and 48 million ...
Bahawalpur, Princely State of India (1833 – 1947) ALBUM – View my Bahawalpur, Princely State of India album Fast Facts Region: India Area Group: Indian Feudatory States Classification: Semi-autonomous state Prior Regime: Bahawalpur Key Dates: 1802 – Bahawalpur state founded in 1802 by Nawab ...