This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the publi

A fascinating study of the role played by the Indian princes in the devolution of British colonial power.

Although the princes of India have been caricatured as oriental despots and British stooges, Barbara Ramusack's study argues that the British did not create the

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