Princely India Re-imagined : A Historical Anthropology of Mysore from 1799 to the present

ISBN-13: 9780415554497 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 212 str.

Aya Ikegame

Opis

India’s Princely states covered nearly 40% 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. It focuses on one of the largest and most important of these states, the Princely State of Mysore, and offers a novel interpretation and thorough investigation of the relationship of king and subject in South Asia.

Using a combination of historical and anthropological methodologies and based upon substantial archival and field research, the author argues that the idea of kingship lived on in South India and continues to play a vital and important role in contemporary South Indian social and political life.

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. The Palace 3. The Politics of Honour 4. Educating the Maharajas 5. Becoming Gentlemen 6. Marriage Alliances in Imperial Space 7. The Capital of Raajadharma: modern space and religion 8. Dasara, Durbar, and Dolls: multi-dimensionality of public ritual 9. The king is dead, long live the king!

O autorze

Aya Ikegame is a research associate for the ERC-funded OECUMENE project ‘Citizenship after Orientalism’ at the Open University, UK. She has co-edited The Guru in South Asia: new interdisciplinary perspectives (Routledge, 2012) with Jacob Copeman.