Using previously unpublished archival material, this book gives new insight into the operation of empire in India in the period 1870-1909 by providing a detailed analysis of British policy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: ...
In Calcutta, the Governor-General remained head of the Government of India and now was more commonly called the Viceroy on account of his secondary role as the Crown’s representative to the nominally sovereign princely states. He was, however, now responsible to the Secretary of State in Londo...
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. ...
The Straits Settlements were officially administered under the direct rule of the British colonial government, but the FMS and the UFMS were experiments in ‘indirect rule’, similar to the Princely States in nearby India.14 Nonetheless, there were significant differences across state contexts. While...
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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...
Outside British India, but often included within the sphere of the presidencies/provinces, were the hundreds of protectorates or 'princely states'. These were indirectly ruled states, the largest being Hyderabad, Kashmir, and Mysore. The others were either collected into agencies - which might in...
British fears of another mutiny and consequent determination to bolster Indian states as “natural breakwaters” against any future tidal wave of revolt thus left more than 560 enclaves of autocratic princely rule to survive, interspersed throughout British India, for the entire nine decades of crown...
Charles John Canning, Earl Canning was a statesman and governor-general of India during the Indian Mutiny of 1857. He became the first viceroy of India in 1858 and played an important part in the work of reconstruction in that colony. The youngest son of