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.
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