Hyderabad, British India, and the World

Beverley, Eric Lewis

doi:10.1017/cbo9781316118665

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“…107 Princely cities emerged as the new site for this developmental paradigm since World War II. 108 The career of Jaipur Metal Industry may be a case in point. It started in Calcutta, then shifted to Mehsana (Baroda state) and finally arrived at Jaipur in 1943.…”

Section: Return Of Capitalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sovereign dreams and bureaucratic strategies in princely Jaipur, c. 1750–1950

Dhabhai

2022

Urban History

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This article focuses on Jaipur city, capital of the Kachhawa Rajput state of Jaipur in the Rajputana region of north-western India (present-day Rajasthan). It seeks to braid the narrative of modernity in Jaipur with the tripartite networks of capital, knowledge and infrastructure that were contemporaneous to different phases of the city's transformation. Through a genealogical analysis of Jaipur's modernity from the eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, the article will present three distinct periods of its urbanization.

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Section: Return Of Capitalmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sovereign dreams and bureaucratic strategies in princely Jaipur, c. 1750–1950

Dhabhai

2022

Urban History

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“…70 The prospect of the Nizam taking up the mantle of Muslim anti-colonialism caused significant anxiety among colonial officials. 71 From , the Nizam sent regular funding for the upkeep of the deposed caliph. In , the Khilafat leader, Shaukat Ali, brokered the marriage of the Nizam's sons to the caliph's daughter and niece.…”

Section: S U N I L P U R U S H O T H a Mmentioning

confidence: 99%

Federating the Raj: Hyderabad, sovereign kingship, and partition

Purushotham¹

2019

Mod. Asian Stud.

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This article explores the idea of federation in late-colonial India. Projects of federation sought to codify the uncodified and fragmented sovereign landscape of the British Raj. They were ambitious projects that raised crucial questions about sovereignty, kingship, territoriality, the potential of constitutional law in transforming the colonial state into a democratic one, and India's political future more broadly. In the years after 1919, federation became a capacious model for imagining a wide array of political futures. An all-India Indian federation was seen as the most plausible means of maintaining India's unity, introducing representative government, and overcoming the Hindu–Muslim majority–minority problem. By bringing together ‘princely’ India and British India, federation made the Indian states central players in late-colonial contestations over sovereignty. This article explores the role of the states in constitutional debates, their place in Indian political imaginaries, and articulations of kingship in late-colonial India. It does so through the example of Hyderabad, the premier princely state, whose ruler made an unsuccessful bid for independence between 1947 and 1948. Hyderabad occupied a curious position in competing visions of India's future. Ultimately, the princely states were a decisive factor in the failure of federation and the turn to partition as a means of overcoming India's constitutional impasse.

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“…Rhetoric of patrimonial obligations of rulers to their subject populations was central to Hyderabad state ideology. 37 Hyderabad officials presented themselves as guarantors or protectors of spaces of labour, dwelling and worship of state subjects, and these values were reflected in state urban policy. 38 In rural and frontier districts across the state, officials instituted policies to protect livelihoods and safeguard human security of Hyderabadis.…”

Section: Other Sovereignities Other Securitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%