This is an invaluable work looking into new areas relating to India's princely states. Based on an abundance of rarely used archival material, the book sheds new light on diversities related to the princely states such as health policies and practices, gender issues, the states’ military contribution or the mechanisms for controlling or integrating the states.
Contributions are from international, reputable scholars, and they present historiographic, analytical and methodological approaches, placing attention to concepts, theories and sources. Inter-disciplinary in nature, this book will appeal to scholars and researchers of South Asia, studies of transnational histories, cultural and racial studies, international politics and economic history and the social history of health and medicine.
1 People princes and colonialism
Relations of power and rituals of legitimation
Representations in nineteenthcentury British colonial fiction 18581900
The Subjugation of the Sindia state c184344
A Study of colonial settlement policies 18601905
Princely Orissa 18501947
The deposition of princes in the Central India Agency c18801947
Military collaboration between princely India and the British Raj c18801920
The case of Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam of Bhopal
The Eki movement in Mewar 192122
Princely or colonial medicine
Tackling the influenza pandemic of 1918
13 Border incidents internal disorder and the nizams claim for an independent Hyderabad