Conquering the Maharajas: India’S Princely States and the End of Empire, 1930–50

Conquering the maharajas demonstrates that the political and military clashes between the Indian and Pakistani governments and the princely states, a legacy of the layered sovereignty of British indirect rule in India, was a product of the competing ideas of state sovereignty leading up to and following the transfer of power in 1947. -- . Conquering the maharajas demonstrates that the political and military clashes between the Indian and Pakistani governments and the princely states, a legacy of the layered sovereignty of British indirect rule in India, was a product of the competing ideas of state sovereignty leading up to and following the transfer of power in 1947.

• | Author: Harrison Akins
• | Publisher: Manchester University Press
• | Publication Date: Jun 06, 2023
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9781526167859
• | ISBN-10: 1526167859