India's princely states : people, princes and colonialism / edited by Waltraud Ernst and Biswamoy Pati.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ernst, Waltraud, 1955-

Pati, Biswamoy.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947.

India.

History.

India--Historiography.

Historiography.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 231 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Delhi, India : Primus, 2010.

Contents:

People, princes and colonialism / Waltraud Ernst and Biswamoy Pati

Colonial and postcolonial historiography and the princely states : relations of power and rituals of legitimation / Hira Singh

'Cruel, Oriental despots' : representations in nineteenth-century British colonial fiction, 1858-1900 / Indrani Sen

Narcotrafficking, princely ingenuity and the Raj : the subjugation of the Sindia state, c. 1843-44 / Amar Farooqui

The agrarian system of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir : a study of colonial settlement policies, 1860-1905 / Shakti Kak

The order of legitimacy : princely Orissa, 1850-1947 / Biswamoy Pati

Loyal feudatories or depraved despots? : the deposition of princes in the Central India Agency, c. 1880-1947 / Fiona Groenhout

'Hostages in our camp' : military collaboration between princely India and the British Raj, c. 1880-1920 / Samiksha Sehrawat

Historicizing debates over women's status in Islam : the case of Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam of Bhopal / Siobhan Lambert-Hurley

The Maharana and the Bhils : the 'Eki' movement in Mewar, 1921-22 / Hari Sen

Women's hospitals and midwives in Mysore, 1870-1920 : princely or colonial medicine / Barbara N. Ramusack

Public health administration in princely Mysore : tackling the influenza pandemic of 1918 / T.V. Sekher

Border incidents, internal disorder and the nizam's claim for an independent Hyderabad / Manjiri N. Kamat.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789380607030

9380607032

OCLC:

693952418