Waltraud Ernst - India’s Princely States: People, princes and colonialism

This book reassesses the place of the Indian princely states within the history of South Asia and weaves together hitherto uncharted areas. It employs a multi-disciplinary approach and critiques some of the received paradigms of conventional historiography about Princely India, leading the reader into new realms of discussion such as literary constructions, aspects of political economy and legitimacy, military collaborations, gender issues, peasant movements, health policies and the mechanisms for controlling and integrating the states. The contributors focus on a range of states in different regions and base their analyses on hitherto unused or underused archival sources.
The collection will appeal to scholars of South Asia and students of transnational histories, cultural and racial studies, international politics, economic history and social history of health and medicine.
Waltraud Ernst is Professor in the History of Medicine at Oxford Brookes University, UK. She has published widely on the history of mental illness in South Asia. Her publications include Mad Tales from the Raj (1991); Race, Science and Medicine (co-edited with B.J. Harris, 1999); Plural Medicine, Tradition and Modernity (ed., 2002) and The Normal and the Abnormal (ed., 2006). She is currently completing a book on Mental Illness and Colonialism and is engaged in a collaborative research project on Colonial Medicine and Indigenous Health Practices in Southern and Eastern Princely States of India, c.18801960.
Biswamoy Pati is Reader in the Department of History, Sri Venkateswara College, Delhi University, India. His research interests focus on colonial Indian social history. He is the author of Identity, Hegemony, Resistance: Towards a Social History of Conversions in Orissa, 1800 2000 (2003); Situating Social History: Orissa, 1800 1997 (2001); and Resisting Domination: Peasants, Tribals and the National Movement in Orissa, 1920 1950 (1993). He has co-edited Health, Medicine and Empire: Perspectives on Colonial India (with Mark Harrison, 2001; 2006). He has also edited The 1857

Rebellion: Debates in Indian History and Society (2007).

1 The Police in Occupation

Japan

Control, corruption and resistance to reform Christopher Aldous

2 Chinese Workers A new history Jackie Sheehan

3 The Aftermath of Partition in

South Asia

Tai Yong Tan and Gyanesh

Kudaisya

4 The AustraliaJapan Political

Alignment

1952 to the present

Alan Rix

5 Japan and Singapore in the

World Economy

Japans economic advance into Singapore, 18701965

Shimizu Hiroshi and

Hirakawa Hitoshi

6 The Triads as Business

Yiu Kong Chu

7 Contemporary Taiwanese

Cultural Nationalism

A-chin Hsiau

8 Religion and Nationalism in India

The case of the Punjab

Harnik Deol

9 Japanese Industrialisation

Historical and cultural perspectives

Ian Inkster

10 War and Nationalism in China

1925 1945

Hans J. van de Ven

11 Hong Kong in Transition One country, two systems

Edited by Robert Ash, Peter Ferdinand, Brian Hook and Robin Porter

12 Japans Postwar Economic Recovery and Anglo-Japanese Relations,

1948 1962

Noriko Yokoi

13 Japanese Army Stragglers and Memories of the

War in Japan,

1950 1975

Beatrice Trefalt

14 Ending the Vietnam War

The Vietnamese communists
perspective

Ang Cheng Guan

15 The Development of the Japanese Nursing Profession Adopting and adapting Western inf luences

Aya Takahashi

16 Womens Suffrage in Asia Gender nationalism and democracy

Louise Edwards and Mina

Roces

17 The Anglo-Japanese Alliance,

19021922

Phillips Payson OBrien

18 The United States and

Cambodia, 1870 1969

From curiosity to confrontation Kenton Clymer

19 Capitalist Restructuring and the

Pacific Rim

Ravi Arvind Palat

20 The United States and

Cambodia, 19692000

A troubled relationship

Kenton Clymer

21 British Business in Post-Colonial

Malaysia, 195770

Neo-colonialism or disengagement? Nicholas J. White

22 The Rise and Decline of Thai

Absolutism

Kullada Kesboonchoo Mead

23 Russian Views of Japan,

17921913

An anthology of travel writing

David N. Wells

24 The Internment of Western

Civilians under the Japanese,

19411945

A patchwork of internment

Bernice Archer

25 The British Empire and Tibet

1900 1922

Wendy Palace

26 Nationalism in Southeast

Asia

If the people are with us

Nicholas Tarling

27 Women, Work and the Japanese

Economic Miracle

The case of the cotton textile industry, 19451975

Helen Macnaughtan

28 A Colonial Economy in Crisis Burmas rice cultivators and the world depression of the

1930s

Ian Brown

29 A Vietnamese Royal Exile in

Japan

Prince Cuong De (18821951)

Tran My-Van

30 Corruption and Good Governance in Asia Nicholas Tarling

31 USChina Cold War

Collaboration, 19711989

S. Mahmud Ali

32 Rural Economic Development in Japan

From the nineteenth century to the Pacific War

Penelope Francks

33 Colonial Armies in Southeast

Asia

Edited by Karl Hack and

Tobias Rettig

34 Intra Asian Trade and the World

Market

A.J.H. Latham and Heita

Kawakatsu

35 Japanese-German Relations,

1895 1945

War, diplomacy and public opinion

Edited by Christian W. Spang and Rolf-Harald Wippich

36 Britains Imperial Cornerstone in China

The Chinese maritime customs service,
18541949

Donna Brunero

37 Colonial Cambodias Bad

Frenchmen

The rise of French rule and the life of Thomas Caraman,
18401887

Gregor Muller

38 Japanese-American Civilian Prisoner Exchanges and Detention Camps, 1941 45

Bruce Elleman

39 Regionalism in Southeast Asia To foster the political will Nicholas Tarling

40 Changing Visions of East Asia,

1943 93

Transformations and continuities

R .B. Smith (Edited by

Chad J. Mitcham)

41 Christian Heretics in Late

Imperial China

Christian inculturation and state control, 17201850

Lars P. Laamann

42 Beijing A Concise History

Stephen G. Haw

43 The Impact of the Russo-Japanese War Edited by Rotem Kowner

44 BusinessGovernment Relations in Prewar Japan

Peter von Staden

45 Indias Princely States

People, princes and colonialism Edited by Waltraud Ernst and Biswamoy Pati

People, princes and colonialism

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