Author : Sharada Dwivedi
Publisher : Roli Books
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 36,61 MB
Release : 2007
Category : India
ISBN : 9788174365750
Descendents of some of the rulers of the former princely states of India; includes a brief ancestral lineage.
Author : Barbara N. Ramusack
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 47,66 MB
Release : 2004-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1139449087
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.
Author : Shivaji Rao Holkar
Publisher : Viking Adult
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 33,13 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Cooking
ISBN :
Author : Charles Allen
Publisher : Mercury Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,41 MB
Release : 2005
Category : India
ISBN : 9781904668671
A fascinating celebration of the splendour of Princely India.
Author : Christopher Snedden
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 10,77 MB
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1526156156
Many disenchanted Kashmiris continue to demand independence or freedom from India. Written by a leading authority on Kashmir’s troubled past, this book revisits the topic of independence for the region (also known as Jammu and Kashmir, or J&K), and explores exactly why this aspiration has never been fulfilled. In a rare India-Pakistan agreement, they concur that neither J&K, nor any part of it, can be independent. Charting a complex history and intense geo-political rivalry from Maharaja Hari Singh’s leadership in the mid-1920s to the present, this book offers an essential insight into the disputes that have shaped the region. As tensions continue to rise following government-imposed COVID-19 lockdowns, Snedden asks a vital question: what might independence look like and just how realistic is this aspiration?
Author : Rahul Sagar
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 21,72 MB
Release : 2022-05-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1787388689
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.
Author : Amin Jaffer
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,90 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Affluent consumers
ISBN : 9788174363725
Based equally in the archives of firms such as Louis Vuitton, Boucheron, Chaumet and Hermès, and in palace and private collections, this book explores the role of maharajas in an age of high spending and fashion. It brings together original designs with surviving objects, exploring for the first time the creative dialogue between Indian princes and the skilled tradesmen who produced wonders for their delectation. Married to the objects themselves are the absorbing and often humourous accounts of how maharajas indulged their tastes with unparalleled extravagance and aplomb.
Author : Fatesinghrao Gaekwad
Publisher : Shishu Sahitya Samsad
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 14,54 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Nationalists
ISBN : 9788171540990
This is the story of Sayajirao III of Baroda, a regal personality with a complex human nature, as told by his great-grandson with invlovement, sympathy and affection, but without camouflage or evasion.
Author : Anna M. F. Jackson
Publisher :
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 12,33 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Art, Indic
ISBN : 9781851776474
The word 'maharaja' - literally 'great king' - conjures up a vision of splendour and magnificence. This book examines the real and perceived worlds of the maharaja from the early eighteenth century to 1947, when the Indian Princes ceded their territories into the modern states of India and Pakistan.
Author : Sukhjit Singh
Publisher : Roli Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,72 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9788193860854
The historical crossroads which saw India's transition from British Imperial rule to Independence and a democracy, coincided with the fascinating life of Maharaja Jagatjit Singh, the last ruler of the erstwhile Princely State of Kapurthala (1872-1949). He was witness to some of the most epochal events, both within India and across the global stage during his distinguished reign, which spanned almost 60 years. Maharaja Jagatjit Singh was held in universal esteem and still commands respect as one of the best-known and most legendary of the ruling Indian princes of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Prince, Patron and Patriarch explores the many hues and dimensions of his life, character, and achievements, encapsulated as a renowned traveler, an erudite ruler, a Francophile, and a benevolent patriarch, devoted to his family and his constituents. This book recreates his abundant life and gracious world by surveying the aesthetics and geo-political events of Kapurthala State under his patronage. The monograph of this extraordinary life and dynamic personality is presented with components of a family album, historic journal, along with a design diary owing to the Maharaja's renown as an aficionado of architecture. It also bears elements of a personal memoir, owed largely to the insights shared by Brigadier Sukhjit Singh, who vividly reminisces about his illustrious grandfather.
