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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783686503321

Autore

Copland Ian <1943->

Titolo

State, community, and neighbourhood in princely North India, c. 1900-1950 [[electronic resource] /] / Ian Copland

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005

ISBN

0-230-00598-5

9786610283118

1-280-28311-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2005.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIII, 259 p.)

Disciplina

305.6/0954/09041

Soggetti

Communalism - India - History - 20th century

Religion and politics - India - History - 20th century

India History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-249) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Ian Copland's aim in this book is to explain why, during the colonial period, the erstwhile Indian 'princely' states experienced per capita significantly less Muslim-Sikh and Muslim-Hindu communal violence than the provinces of British India, and how the enviable situation of the states in this respect became eroded over time. His answers to these questions shed new light on the growth of popular organisations in princely India, on relations between the Hindu and Sikh princes and the communal parties in British India, and on governance as a factor in communal riot production and prevention.