The Indian princes and their states
"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 integration...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press
2004.
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| Colección: | The new Cambridge history of India ;
3, 6. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b3838372x*spi |
| Sumario: | "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 integration of the princely states after independence. Ramusack's synthesis has a broad temporal span, tracing the evolution of the Indian kings from their precolonial origins to their roles as clients in the British colonial system. The book breaks new 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 significant 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."--Jacket. |
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| Descripción Física: | xiv, 309 p. : il., mapa |
| Formato: | Forma de acceso: World Wide Web. |
| Bibliografía: | "Bibliographical essay": p. 281-293. Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice. |
| ISBN: | 9781139053969 9780511165887 9780511164217 9780511163623 9780511165559 9780511165016 |
