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

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 m

A fascinating study of the role played by the Indian princes in the devolution of British colonial power.

This is an invaluable work looking into new areas relating to India's princely states. Based on an abundance of rarely used archival material, the book sheds ne

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the publi