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100			_aRamusack, Barbara N. _92623
245			_aThe Indian princes and their states/ _cby Barbara N Ramusack.
260			_aUK: _bCambridge University Press, _c2004.
300			_a309 p.;
440			_aThe New Cambridge Hostory of India _vIII.6 _92624
520			_aAlthough 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 new 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.
650			_aIndia
650			_aHistory
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952			_3PB _w2012-03-13 _p00015533 _r2012-10-05 _40 _eSurya Infotainment:SIPHO/2011/CRB/1910;05/01/2012 _00 _bCJC _10 _o954.03 RAM _d2012-03-13 _8REF _70 _cHIS _2ddc _g395.00 _yREF _s2012-09-27 _l1 _aCJC