India's princely states: people, princes and colonialism /
edited by Waltraud Ernst and Biswamoy Pati.
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2007.
- xi, 231 p. ; 24 cm.
People, princes and colonialism / Waltraud Ernst and Biswamoy Pati -- Colonial and postcolonial historiography and the princely states : relations of power and rituals of legitimation / Hira Singh -- 'Cruel, Oriental despots' : representations in nineteenth-century British colonial fiction, 1858-1900 / Indrani Sen -- Narcotrafficking, princely ingenuity and the Raj : the subjugation of the Sindia state, c. 1843-44 / Amar Farooqui -- The agrarian system of the princely state of Jammu and Kashmir : a study of colonial settlement policies, 1860-1905 / Shakti Kak -- The order of legitimacy : princely Orissa, 1850-1947 / Biswamoy Pati -- Loyal feudatories or depraved despots? : the deposition of princes in the Central India Agency, c. 1880-1947 / Fiona Groenhout -- 'Hostages in our camp' : military collaboration between princely India and the British Raj, c. 1880-1920 / Samiksha Sehrawat -- Historicizing debates over women's status in Islam : the case of Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam of Bhopal / Siobhan Lambert-Hurley -- The Maharana and the Bhils : the 'Eki' movement in Mewar, 1921-22 / Hari Sen -- Women's hospitals and midwives in Mysore, 1870-1920 : princely or colonial medicine / Barbara N. Ramusack -- Public health administration in princely Mysore : tackling the influenza pandemic of 1918 / T.V. Sekher -- Border incidents, internal disorder and the nizam's claim for an independent Hyderabad / Manjiri N. Kamat.