India's Princely States: People, Princes and

This is an invaluable work looking into new areas relating to India's princely states. Based on an abundance of rarely used archival material, the book sheds new light on diversities related to the princely states such as health policies and practices, gender issues, the statesa?? military contribution or the mechanisms for controlling or integrating the states. Contributions are from international, reputable scholars, and they present historiographic, analytical and methodological approaches, placing attention to concepts, theories and sources. Inter-disciplinary in nature, this book will appeal to scholars and researchers of South Asia, studies of transnational histories, cultural and racial studies, international politics and economic history and the social history of health and medicine.

People, princes and colonialism	p. 1
Colonial and postcolonial historiography and the princely states: relations of power and rituals of legitimation	p. 15
'Cruel, Oriental despots': representations in nineteenth-century British colonial fiction, 1858-1900	p. 30
Narcotrafficking, princely ingenuity and the Raj: the subjugation of the Sindia state, c. 1843-44	p. 49
The agrarian system of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir: a study of colonial settlement policies, 1860-1905	p. 68
The order of legitimacy: princely Orissa, 1850-1947	p. 85
Loyal feudatories or depraved despots? The deposition of princes in the Central India Agency, c. 1880-1947	p. 99
'Hostages in our camp': military collaboration between princely India and the British Raj, c. 1880-1920	p. 118
Historicizing debates over women's status in Islam: the case of Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam of Bhopal	p. 139
The Maharana and the Bhils: the 'Eki' movement in Mewar, 1921-22	p. 157
Women's hospitals and midwives in Mysore, 1870-1920: princely or colonial medicine	p. 173
Public health administration in princely Mysore: tackling the influenza pandemic of 1918	p. 194
Border incidents, internal disorder and the nizam's claim for an independent Hyderabad	p. 212
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India's Princely States: People, Princes and Colonialism

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