Princely India re-imagined : : a historical anthropology of Mysore from 1799 to the present / / Aya Ikegame.

• Superior document: Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian studies series
• VerfasserIn: Ikegame, Aya.,
• Place / Publishing House: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ;, New York : : Routledge,, 2013.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian studies series; Routledge/Edinburgh South Asian Studies Series
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (233 pages)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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

Table of Contents

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!.