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Record Nr.

UNINA9910813004803321

Autore

Purcell Hugh

Titolo

Maharajah of Bikaner [[electronic resource] ] : India / / Hugh Purcell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Haus, 2010

ISBN

1-283-26442-0

9786613264428

1-907822-11-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (206 p.)

Collana

Haus histories

Makers of the modern world

Disciplina

954.035092

Soggetti

Generals - India

World War, 1914-1918 - Participation, Indic

Princes - India

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgements; Prologue: 1919; Part 1; The Maharaja of Bikaner and the Indian Princes; The Indian Army in the First World War; SP Sinha and the Indian National Congress; The Imperial War Cabinet and Conference, March-May 1917; The Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms; Part 2; The Call to Peace; India and the League of Nations; The Paris Peace Conference - Indiaand the Ottoman Empire; Part 3; Reform and Revolt, 1919-24; Towards Independence: the Rise of the Congress Party; Towards Independence: Bikaner and the Fall of the Princes; Notes; Chronology; Further Reading; Picture Sources; Index; Info

Sommario/riassunto

Bikaner was Oone of the last Indian princes to play an important part in global politics