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Autore: | Ikegame Aya. |
Titolo: | Princely India re-imagined : a historical anthropology of Mysore from 1799 to the present / / Aya Ikegame |
Pubblicazione: | Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (233 pages) |
Disciplina: | 954/.87031 |
Soggetto geografico: | Mysore (Princely State) History 19th century |
Mysore (Princely State) Kings and rulers 19th century | |
India History British occupation, 1765-1947 | |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Introduction -- The palace -- The politics of honour -- Educating the maharajas -- Becoming gentlemen -- Marriage alliances in imperial space -- The capital of Raajadharma : modern space and religion -- Dasara, Durbar, and dolls : multi-dimensionality of public ritual -- The king is dead, long live the king!. |
Sommario/riassunto: | India's Princely States covered nearly 40 per cent of the Indian subcontinent at the time of Indian independence, and they collapsed after the departure of the British. This book provides a chronological analysis of the Princely State in colonial times and its post-colonial legacies. Focusing on one of the largest and most important of these states, the Princely State of Mysore, it offers a novel interpretation and thorough investigation of the relationship of king and subject in South Asia.The book argues that the denial of political and economic power to the king, especially after |
Titolo autorizzato: | Princely India re-imagined |
ISBN: | 0-203-10225-8 |
1-283-86177-1 | |
1-136-23910-3 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910536357303321 |
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