Ian Copland's fascinating study of the role played by the Indian princes in the devolution of British colonial power rehabilitates the maharajahs and nawabs of South Asia as subjects for serious historical debate. The author goes on to chart their political demise under the successor congress government in New Delhi, and asks how and why it happened so quickly. The book will add a new dimension to the political history of later colonial India, and will also impact upon the wider history of the twentieth-century British Empire.
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"...a fascinating and fluently written study which successfully challenges future accounts of Indian independence to look far more carefully at the curious triangular relationship between the British, the princes, and the provinces of British India." The International History Review
"The demise of Indian royalty and their territories is the subject of this careful stufy by Iam Copland. Copland's research has been meticulous in the relevant official archival resources in India and Britain and the private manuscripts and published papers of the major participants." Richard J. Grace, The Historian
"The demise of Indian royalty and their territories is the subject of this careful stufy by Iam Copland. Copland's research has been meticulous in the relevant official archival resources in India and Britain and the private manuscripts and published papers of the major participants." Richard J. Grace, The Historian
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Ian Copland's fascinating study of the role played by the Indian princes in the devolution of British colonial power rehabilitates the maharashtras and nawabs of South Asia as subjects for serious historical debate. The author goes on to chart their political demise under the successor congress government in New Delhi, and asks how and why it happened so quickly. The book will add a new dimension to the political history of later colonial India, and will also impact upon the wider history of the twentieth-century British empire.
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By the early 1940s the cosy, special relationship between the British crown and the Indian princes which forms the subject of this book had become so much a fact of political life in Delhi and Whitehall that people like Leo Amery, secretary of state in Churchill's wartime coalition government, could speak about it as if it had always existed. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
jam sahib, praja mandais, princely order, jam saheb, princely leadership, secretary political department, decimal file, cabinet delegation, reforms office, federal offer, acceding states, monarchical order, federal scheme, cabinet mission, paramount power, political secretary, crown representative, viceregal lodge, princely states, federal compact, rebus sic stantibus Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bhupinder Singh, British India, Madhava Rao, Ganga Singh, Gwynne Coll, Templewood Coll, New Delhi, Osman Ali, Ramaswamy Aiyer, Jayakar Papers, Keyes Coll, Mirza Ismail, Special Organisation, Chamber of Princes, Maqbool Mahmud, Akbar Hydari, Jey Singh, Reading Coll, Sapru Papers, Zetland Coll, Hari Singh, Manubhai Mehta, Leslie Scott, Sadar Office, Wavell Coll New!
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By the early 1940s the cosy, special relationship between the British crown and the Indian princes which forms the subject of this book had become so much a fact of political life in Delhi and Whitehall that people like Leo Amery, secretary of state in Churchill's wartime coalition government, could speak about it as if it had always existed. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
jam sahib, praja mandais, princely order, jam saheb, princely leadership, secretary political department, decimal file, cabinet delegation, reforms office, federal offer, acceding states, monarchical order, federal scheme, cabinet mission, paramount power, political secretary, crown representative, viceregal lodge, princely states, federal compact, rebus sic stantibus Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bhupinder Singh, British India, Madhava Rao, Ganga Singh, Gwynne Coll, Templewood Coll, New Delhi, Osman Ali, Ramaswamy Aiyer, Jayakar Papers, Keyes Coll, Mirza Ismail, Special Organisation, Chamber of Princes, Maqbool Mahmud, Akbar Hydari, Jey Singh, Reading Coll, Sapru Papers, Zetland Coll, Hari Singh, Manubhai Mehta, Leslie Scott, Sadar Office, Wavell Coll New!
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- Shaft of Sunlight by Philip Mason on page 226, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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