British Policy In India (1858-1905)
British Policy In India (1858-1905)

Author: Sarvepalli Gopal

Publisher:

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 9780001100091

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British Policy In India Is A Study Of The First Phase Of British Rule In India Under The Crown. It Seeks To Examine The Ideals And Aspirations Of The British Parties And Statesmen, Their Ways And Methods Of Implementing Them, And The Consequences, Both Anticipated And Unintended, Of Their Efforts. The Author Has Studied The Private As Well As The Public Correspondence Of The Viceroys, Secretaries Of State, And Others Concerned, Such As Gladstone And Assessment Of British Policy Towards India As A Whole During This Period, This Book Makes An Important Contribution To The Current Reinterpretation Of British Indian History.

British Policy in India 1858-1905
British Policy in India 1858-1905

Author: S. Gopal

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1965-01-02

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 9780521051194

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The purpose of this substantial work is to study British policy towards India during the second half of the nineteenth century as formulated in Britain and India by the highest authorities. The period from the Revolt and the assumption by the British Government of direct responsibility for the administration of India to the end of Curzon's viceroyalty is a crucial one and 1905 may be taken as the end of the first phase of the Crown's rule in India. Thereafter political and constitutional developments become more important than the efforts of the administration.

The Indian Princes and their States
The Indian Princes and their States

Author: Barbara N. Ramusack

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2004-01-08

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1139449087

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Although the princes of India have been caricatured as oriental despots and British stooges, Barbara Ramusack's study argues that the British did not create the princes. On the contrary, many were consummate politicians who exercised considerable degrees of autonomy until the disintegration of the princely states after independence. Ramusack's synthesis has a broad temporal span, tracing the evolution of the Indian kings from their pre-colonial origins to their roles as clients in the British colonial system. The book breaks ground in its integration of political and economic developments in the major princely states with the shifting relationships between the princes and the British. It represents a major contribution, both to British imperial history in its analysis of the theory and practice of indirect rule, and to modern South Asian history, as a portrait of the princes as politicians and patrons of the arts.

Princely India and the British
Princely India and the British

Author: Caroline Keen

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2012-09-05

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 0857721909

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In the latter part of the nineteenth century,the royal status of Indian princes was under threat in what became a critical period of transition from traditional to imperial rule.Weakened by treaties concluded with the British earlier in the century,the rulers were subject to a concentrated campaign by British officials to turn palace life into a westernised construct of morality,rules and regulations.Young heirs to the throne were exposed to a western education to encourage their enthusiasm for changes in the princely environment.At the same time bureaucracies constructed on the British Indian model were introduced to promote'good government'.In many cases,royal practice and authority were sacrificed in the urgency to install efficient and accountable methods of administration.Adult rulers were frequently sidelined in the intricacies of state politics and the traditional princely power base was steadily eroded. Using the framework of a princely life-cycle,this book evaluates British policy towards the princes during the period 1858-1909. Within this framework Caroline Keen examines disputed successions to Indian thrones,the reaction of young rulers to a western education, princely marriages and the empowerment of royal women,the administration of states,and efforts to alter court hierarchy and ritual to conform to strict British bureaucratic guidelines.A recurring theme is the frequently incompatible relationship between British officials posted to the states and their superiors within the Government of India. Rarely examined archival material is used to provide a detailed analysis of policy-making which deals with British procedure at all levels of officialdom. For scholars and researchers of South Asian and British imperial history this book casts new light upon a highly significant phase of imperial development and makes a major contribution to the understanding of the operation of indirect rule under the Raj.