The Making of the Indian Princes

The Making of the Indian Princes
Author: Edward John 1886-1946 Thompson
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2021-09-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9781013482892

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The Making of the Indian Princes

The Making of the Indian Princes
Author: Edward Thompson
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 284
Release: 2017-04-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351966049

This book, first published in 1943, sets forth the history of the rise and development of the states of princely India from the end of the eighteenth century until the beginning of nineteenth. This was also the formative period for the East India Company and thus for India itself. It describes the processes, military and political, whereby modern India was formed.

"Our Indian Princess"

Author: Nancy Marie Mithlo
Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2009
Genre: Art
ISBN:

In this path breaking study, anthropologist Nancy Marie Mithlo examines the power of stereotypes, the utility of pan-Indianism, the significance of realist ideologies, and the employment of alterity in Native American arts.

Made for Maharajas

Made for Maharajas
Author: Amin Jaffer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Affluent consumers
ISBN: 9788174363725

Based equally in the archives of firms such as Louis Vuitton, Boucheron, Chaumet and Hermès, and in palace and private collections, this book explores the role of maharajas in an age of high spending and fashion. It brings together original designs with surviving objects, exploring for the first time the creative dialogue between Indian princes and the skilled tradesmen who produced wonders for their delectation. Married to the objects themselves are the absorbing and often humourous accounts of how maharajas indulged their tastes with unparalleled extravagance and aplomb.

Raj

Raj
Author: Lawrence James
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 768
Release: 2000-08-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780312263829

From the critically acclaimed author of "The Rise and Fall of the British Empire" comes an unapologetic revisionist history of British rule in India. James recounts the twists and turns of imperialism and independence with a wealth of new material. 8-page photo insert.

Lives of the Indian Princes

Lives of the Indian Princes
Author: Charles Allen
Publisher: BPI Publishing
Total Pages: 304
Release: 1984
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 8186982051

This book on the picturesque lifestyle of the erstwhile Indian princes and maharajas is now available in a revised Indian edition. The princes may have become mere citizens but the enchantment remains

Princestan

Princestan
Author: Sandeep Bamzai
Publisher: Rupa Publications India Pvt Limited
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2020
Genre:
ISBN: 9789353338190

In the run-up to independence, a vile plan was devised by a handful of powerful princes to not join either India or Pakistan. The plan was led by the chancellor of the chamber of princes, Nawab of Bhopal, who was operating under the patronage of Mohd. Ali Jinnah, Lord Wavell and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The idea was to create a Third Dominion called Princestan where the 565 princely states would stay outside the ambit of the two free states and retain paramountcy under the aegis of the departing British. The success of such a malevolent plan would have made the newly independent nation unstable and vulnerable.

The Far Pavilions

The Far Pavilions
Author: M. M. Kaye
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Total Pages: 961
Release: 2015-12-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1250089298

This sweeping epic set in 19th-century India begins in the foothills of the towering Himalayas and follows a young Indian-born orphan as he's raised in England and later returns to India where he falls in love with an Indian princess and struggles with cultural divides. The Far Pavilions is itself a Himalayan achievement, a book we hate to see come to an end. It is a passionate, triumphant story that excites us, fills us with joy, move us to tears, satisfies us deeply, and helps us remember just what it is we want most from a novel. M.M. Kaye's masterwork is a vast, rich and vibrant tapestry of love and war that ranks with the greatest panoramic sagas of modern fiction, moving the famed literary critic Edmond Fuller to write: "Were Miss Kaye to produce no other book, The Far Pavilions might stand as a lasting accomplishment in a single work comparable to Margaret Mitchell's achievement in Gone With the Wind."

The Last Resident

The Last Resident
Author: Shahzad Rizvi
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2013-02-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9781300696292

British diplomat Nigel adores India and its culture, but not his spoiled wife, Pamela. Instead, he has fallen hopelessly in love with Mehru, a married Muslim princess. When Pamela is murdered, Nigel is imprisoned as the prime suspect, but did he do it? The only one who could help free Nigel is the state's brilliant Jewish prime minister, but he, too, is in prison!