India's princely states
Subtitle: people, princes, and colonialism
By: edited by Waltraud Ernst and Biswamoy Pati.
Contributors: Ernst, Waltraud, 1955-; Pati, Biswamoy.
Series: Routledge studies in the modern history of Asia series -- 45
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415415415
Subjects: India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947; India -- Historiography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: People, princes, and colonialism / Waltraud Ernst and Biswamoy Pati; title: Colonial and postcolonial historiography and the princely states : relations of power and rituals of legitimation / Hira Singh; title: "Cruel, oriental despots" : representations in nineteenth-century British colonial fiction, 1858-1900 / Indrani Sen; title: Narcotrafficking, princely ingenuity, and the Raj : the subjugation of the Sindia state, c. 1843-44 / Amar Farooqui; title: The agrarian system of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir : a study of colonial settlement policies, 1860-1905 / Shakti Kak; title: The order of legitimacy : princely Orissa, 1850-1920 / Biswamoy Pati; title: Loyal feudatories or depraved despots? : the deposition of princes in the Central India Agency, c. 1880-1947 / Fiona Groenhout; title: "Hostages in our camp" : military collaboration between princely India and the British Raj, c. 1880-1920 / Samiksha Sehrawat; title: Historicising debates over women's status in Islam : the case of Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam of Bhopal / Siobhan Lambert-Huurley; title: The maharana and the Bhils : the Eki movement in Mewar, 1921-22 / Hari Sen; title: Women's hospitals and midwives in Mysore, 1870-1920 : princely or colonial medicine / Barbara Ramusack; title: Public health administration in princely Mysore : tackling the influenza pandemic of 1918 / T.V. Sekher; title: Border incidents, internal disorder, and the nizam's claim for an independent Hyderabad / Manjiri Kamat.