Manu Pillai on False Allies: India’s Maharajahs in the Age of Ravi Varma | LHI Book Club
Channel: Peepul Tree World (Live History India)
Date: 2021-11-19

The British circulated the idea that Indian maharajahs were petty despots who needed ‘enlightened’ white hands to guide them. Many Indians bought into this stereotype, viewing princely India as only caring about lust and luxury. Author Manu S. Pillai disputes this view. Tracking the travels of the painter Ravi Varma, he uncovers a world that is not of dancing girls, but of sedition, legal battles, the defiance of imperial dictates, and resistance. We meet maharajahs obsessed with industrialization, and rulers who funded nationalists, these men anything but pushovers for the Raj to manipulate. 


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