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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Princely states"”.
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Princes, diwans and merchants : education and reform in colonial India
… modern education. I argue that rulers of Indian states adapted to the colonial environment quite effectively. Instead of a break from the past, traditional ideas of rajadharma (duties of a king) evolved and made room for reformist social and economic policies. This dissertation examines why many …
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What attitudes about opium were driving the government of India's policies between 1857-1906?
… smuggling activities, the role of the Princely States, religious and missionary attitudes and finally medical attitudes. What this analysis will show is that there was no single objective or agenda that was driving British opium policy or ideas about the drug. Policies on opium operated …
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The Conflict in Kashmir: Down the Corridor of Uncertainty and Unrest
… the separation of Pakistan from India, and all princely states on the subcontinent were ordered to accede to either India or Pakistan according to whether they had a majority Hindu or Muslim population. The question of accession for Kashmir was never answered in a manner which would placate both …
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Head Studies by Balthasar Denner
… started in 1618 to determine whether the German States would be dominated by Catholic interests or by Protestantt . Entwined, however, with the religious alliances were a myriad of political and feudal quarrels in which external European powers were quick to meddle. Eventually, the affairs of the …
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Partitioned listening: sonic methodology and the archive after 1947
… – the division of the British Raj and the princely states into the independent nations of India and (East and West) Pakistan – as a sonic condition as well as an historical event. This approach furthers Madhavi Menon’s formulation of the Partition as a “condition within which we all labour” …
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Implementation across national boundaries: Implementing the Government of India Act 1935
… of an all-India federation to include both, the princely states and the provinces of British India. The model and the propositions guide the analysis of the case studies, though these are not rigidly structured in order to allow the idiosyncratic aspects of each case to be taken into account. The …
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Sind and the partition of India, c.1927-1952
… agenda to secure the integration of the princely states and harness their economic resources to the Indian Union. By investigating the ‘failures’ of this attempt to re-establish ‘Sind in India’, this thesis provides unique insights into the fraught interaction between refugee resettlement …
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The Residents of the British East India Company at Indian royal courts, c. 1798-1818
Generations of historians have looked to Bengal, Bombay, and Madras to detect the emergence of the legal and administrative mechanisms that would underpin Britain’s nineteenth-century empire. Yet this focus on ‘British’ India overshadows the very different history of nearly half the Indian …