Author: R. K. SaxenaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maharashtra (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Maratha Relations with the Major States of Rajputana Between 1761-1818
Author: R. K. SaxenaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maharashtra (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Maratha Relations with the Major States of Rajputana, 1761-1818 A.D.
Author: Rajendra Kumar SaxenaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Maratha (Indic people)
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Maratha Relations with the Major States of Rajputana (1761-1818 A.D.)
Author: R. K. SaxenaMaratha Relations with the Major States of Rajputana, 1761-1818 A.D.
Author: Rajendra Kumar SaxenaPublisher: New Delhi : S. Chand
ISBN:
Category : Maratha (Indic people)
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The Indian Princes and their States
Author: Barbara N. RamusackPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139449087
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
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 disintegration of the princely states after independence. Ramusack's synthesis has a broad temporal span, tracing the evolution of the Indian kings from their pre-colonial origins to their roles as clients in the British colonial system. The book breaks 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 major 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.
The Anglo-Maratha Campaigns and the Contest for India
Author: Randolf G. S. CooperPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521824446
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
This is a cross-cultural study of the political economy of war in South Asia. Randolf G. S. Cooper combines an overview of Maratha military culture with a battle-by-battle analysis of the 1803 Anglo-Maratha Campaigns. Building on that foundation he challenges ethnocentric assumptions about British superiority in discipline, drill and technology. He argues that these campaigns, in which Arthur Wellesley served with distinction, represent the military high-water mark of the Marathas who posed the last serious opposition to the formation of the British Raj. Dr Cooper asserts that the real contest for India was never a single decisive battle for the subcontinent. Rather it turned on a complex social and political struggle for control of the South Asian military economy. The author shows that victory in 1803 hinged as much on finance, diplomacy, politics and intelligence as it did on battlefield manoeuvre and war itself.
Imperial Sovereignty and Local Politics
Author: Tripurdaman SinghPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108497438
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Provides a radical re-orientation of the way we understand the nature of imperial sovereignty in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Knowledge, mediation and empire
Author: Florence D'SouzaPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1784992089
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
This study of the British colonial administrator James Tod (1782–1835), who spent five years in north-western India (1818–22) collecting every conceivable type of material of historical or cultural interest on the Rajputs and the Gujaratis, gives special attention to his role as a mediator of knowledge about this little-known region of the British Empire in the early nineteenth century to British and European audiences. The book aims to illustrate that British officers did not spend all their time oppressing and inferiorising the indigenous peoples under their colonial authority, but also contributed to propagating cultural and scientific information about them, and that they did not react only negatively to the various types of human difference they encountered in the field.
Krishna Kumari: The Tragedy of India
Author: English Subba RaoPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350453854
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Krishna Kumari: The Tragedy of India introduces readers to the first English language play in modern India. Written in 1826 by English Subba Rao, one of the first Indians to be schooled in English, Krishna Kumari depicts the true story of a princess of Udaipur who is forced to commit suicide in order to end a war started by her suitors, the rulers of the neighboring kingdoms of Jaipur and Jodhpur. Tragically, her death proves to be in vain because the mercenaries recruited by the contending rulers nevertheless proceed to plunder the region. All three kingdoms are then compelled to seek the protection of the East India Company, bringing their independence to an end. Sharp and witty, Krishna Kumari was intended to warn Indian principalities against the follies that led to the downfall of the Rajputs. Unfortunately, the play scarcely saw the light of day. Angered by Subba Rao's opposition to their power, the British forced him to withdraw from public life. This is why audiences have never heard of Krishna Kumari-until now. Building on extensive archival research, this volume brings Subba Rao's pioneering drama back to life. The introductory essay by Rahul Sagar, a leading scholar of nineteenth century India, familiarizes readers with the remarkable characters in the play and the violent era in which they lived. By shedding light on Subba Rao's extraordinary life and career, it also reveals how important principalities like Tanjore and Travancore were in battling colonialism and shaping modern India.
Author: K. S. Gupta