دانلود کتاب India’s Princely States: People, princes and colonialism

India’s Princely States

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.1880–1960’.

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