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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 632
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The Feudatory and zemindari India
Author: The Feudatory and zemindari India
Author: Ministers in Indian States
Author: R. Venkoba RaoPublisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 522
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The Progressive Maharaja
Author: Rahul SagarPublisher: Hurst Publishers
ISBN: 1787388689
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
Hints on the Art and Science of Government was the first treatise on statecraft produced in modern India. It consists of lectures that Raja Sir T. Madhava Rao delivered in 1881 to Sayaji Rao Gaekwad III, the young Maharaja of Baroda. Universally considered the foremost Indian statesman of the nineteenth century, Madhava Rao had served as dewan (or prime minister) in the native states of Travancore, Indore and Baroda. Under his command, Travancore and Baroda came to be seen as ‘model states’, whose progress demonstrated that Indians were capable of governing well. Rao’s lectures summarise the fundamental principles underlying his unprecedented success. He explains how and why a Maharaja ought to marry the classical Indian ideal of raj dharma, which enjoins rulers to govern dutifully, with the modern English ideal of limited sovereignty. This makes Hints an exceptionally important text: it shows how, outside the confines of British India, Indians consciously and creatively sought to revise and adapt ideals in the interests of progress. This landmark edition contains both the newly rediscovered, original lecture manuscripts; and an authoritative introduction, outlining Rao’s remarkable career, his complicated relationship with Sayaji Rao III, and the reasons why his lectures have been neglected–until now.
The Life and Work of Bengal Zemindars
Author: R. Venkoba RaoPublisher:
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Category : Bengal (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 290
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The Asiatic Review
Author: Asian Review
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 828
Book Description
Beginning in 1895, includes the Proceedings of the East India Association.
Witchcraft Accusations from Central India
Author: Helen MacdonaldPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000225712
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
This book unravels the institutions surrounding witchcraft in the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh through theoretical and empirical research on witchcraft, violence and modernity in contemporary times. The author pieces together ‘fragments’ of stories gathered utilising ethnographic methods to examine the meanings associated with witches and witchcraft, and how they connect with social relations, gender, notions of agency, law, media and the state. The volume uses the metaphor of the shattered urn to tell the story of the accusations, punishment, rescue and the aftermath of the events of the trial of women accused of being witches. It situates the ṭonhī or witch as a key elaborating symbol that orders behaviour to determine who the socially included and excluded are in communities. Through the personal interviews and other ethnographic methods conducted over the course of many years, the author delves into the stories and practices related to witchcraft, its relations with modernity, and the relationship between violence and ideological norms in society. Insightful and detailed, this book will be of great interest to academics and researchers of anthropology, development studies, sociology, history, violence, gender studies, tribal studies and psychology. It will also be useful for readers in both historic and contemporary witchcraft practices as well as policy makers.
Report on the Administration of the Feudatory States of the Central Provinces
Author: Central Provinces (India)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 114
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Indian and Pakistan Year Book and Who's who
Author: Sir Stanley ReedPublisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 1012
Book Description
Issues for 1919-47 include Who's who in India; 1948, Who's who in India and Pakistan.