Paramount State and the ‘Princely Subject’: Privy Purses Abolition and Its Aftermath

Dhabhai, Garima

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“…As the bene ts of the II Plan were delayed, and only a limited portion of its bene ts reached the poor, there tended to be greater emphasis on limiting the gains of the rich. In 1971 the Constitution of India was amended to ensure that the privy purses, promised to the rulers of princely states when they joined the Indian Union, were withdrawn (Dhabhai, 2020). Other measures sought to merge the targeting of the rich with bene ts to the poor.…”

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Who pays for growth?

Pani

Banerjee

2023

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In the debate on inequality and growth there is a tendency to treat all differences as inequalities. This is despite the possibility of making conflicting arguments about the effect of inequality on growth. It could be argued that inequality, by increasing the savings of the rich, can improve the possibility of greater investment and growth, even as inequality, by reducing access of sections of the population to education, can reduce productivity and growth. These contradictory effects can offset each other thereby distorting estimates of the effects of inequality and growth. This paper makes a case for a more disaggregated approach to the issue. It distinguishes between inequality and aspirational difference, before going on to use the case of savings and consumption patterns in India to explore the very different questions involved in each of their influences on growth.

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2023

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Mountbatten and India, 1964-79:after Nehru

Ankit

2021

Contemporary British History

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This article throws light on Lord Mountbatten's enduring involvement in India after 1964, an overlooked feature of his later life. On a number of issues such as the abolition of titles, privileges and privy purses of Indian Princes (1967-71), imposition of Emergency in India (1975), arms sales, expulsion of BBC (1970-72) and evolution of history-writing on Partition, this article evaluates his changing role as a 'friend of India' in Britain, while becoming an irksome interlocutor for both the British and Indian 'official mind'. This draining of Mountbatten's influence, though not involvement, through the 1970s, represented an inter-generational dilation of Indo-British relations.

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Paramount State and the ‘Princely Subject’: Privy Purses Abolition and Its Aftermath

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Mountbatten and India, 1964-79:after Nehru

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