Author: A. VadiveluPublisher:
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Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 1014
Book Description
The Ruling Chiefs, Nobles and Zamindars of India
Author: A. VadiveluThe Ruling Chiefs, Nobles and Zamindars of India
Author: A. VadiveluThe Princely and Noble Families of the Former Indian Empire: Himachal Pradesh
Author: Mark BrentnallPublisher: Indus Publishing
ISBN: 9788173871634
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
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 Prince Who Beat the Empire
Author: Moin MirPublisher: Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN: 1445686937
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
An acclaimed story of empire and resistance. The rebel prince who beat the world's most powerful corporation. 'A wonderful book' Dominic West.
The Courts of Pre-Colonial South India
Author: Jennifer HowesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135789967
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
This book investigates how the material culture of South Indian courts was perceived by those who lived there in the pre-colonial period. Howes peels away the standard categories used to study Indian palace space, such as public/private and male/female, and replaces them with indigenous descriptions of space found in court poetry, vastu shastra and painted representations of courtly life. Set against the historical background of the events which led to the formation of the Ramnad Kingdom, the Kingdom's material circumstances are examined, beginning with the innermost region of the palace and moving out to the Kingdom via the palace compound itself and the walled town which surrounded it. An important study for both art historians and South India specialists. The volume is richly illustrated in colour.
Between Two Worlds
Author: DeWitt C. EllinwoodPublisher: University Press of America
ISBN: 9780761831136
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 698
Book Description
Diary of Amar Singh with annotations, commentary, and introduction by DeWitt C. Ellinwood, Jr.
May the Best Man Win
Author: P. McDevittPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403981639
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 189
Book Description
As Britain's great power status came to be increasingly challenged in the decades before the First World War, one by-product of the resultant uncertainty was the weakening of the Victorian, middle-class consensus of what constituted ideal manhood. Britain's empire was not only the source of wealth and power, but it simultaneously provided alternative models of masculinity and nationhood. Consequently, the empire and the commonwealth played an important role in defining imperial gender relations in both Britain and in the colonies and dominions. May the Best Man Win investigates the continual re-assessment and reassertion of various masculine ideals associated with sport in the British empire between 1880 and 1935.
The Aravidu Dynasty of Vijayanagara
Author: Henry HerasPublisher:
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Category : Hampī (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
History of People and Their Environs
Author: Publisher: Bharathi Puthakalayam
ISBN: 9789380325910
Category : Tamil Nadu (India)
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
Chiefly on history of Tamil Nadu.