'Innovative and richly textured, Provincial Democracy demonstrates how shifting the scale of anti-colonial politics to the princely state and province in India challenges insular histories of nationalism that focus on the creation of nation identities and borders. Recovering how anti-colonial imaginaries and vernacular publics cultivated new democratic futures through federalism, local government, civil liberties, minority rights and modernity, it is critical reading for our times.' Rohit De, Associate Professor, Department of History, Yale University
Acknowledgements; Introduction: Self-determination, Federation and Civil Liberties in Twentieth-Century South India; 1. Liberalism and Anticolonial Politics in South India; Part I. Federation: 2. Self-Determination, Federation and the Provinces; 3. Princely Hyderabad, Anticolonialism and Federation; Part II. Civil Liberties: 4. Publicity, civil liberties and political life in Princely Hyderabad; 5. The Breakup of Hyderabad; Conclusion: After Empire: Language and Regionalism; Bibliography.
