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      A Historical Anthropology of Mysore From 1799 to The Present

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      A Historical Anthropology of Mysore From 1799 to The Present
      ByAya Ikegame
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2012
      eBook Published 21 August 2012
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203102251
      Pages 232
      eBook ISBN 9780203102251
      Subjects Area Studies, Humanities, Social Sciences
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      Ikegame, A. (2012). Princely India Re-imagined: A Historical Anthropology of Mysore From 1799 to The Present (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203102251

      ABSTRACT

      India’s Princely States covered nearly 40 per cent of the Indian subcontinent at the time of Indian independence, and they collapsed after the departure of the British. This book provides a chronological analysis of the Princely State in colonial times and its post-colonial legacies. Focusing on one of the largest and most important of these states, the Princely State of Mysore, it offers a novel interpretation and thorough investigation of the relationship of king and subject in South Asia.

      The book argues that the denial of political and economic power to the king, especially after 1831 when direct British control was imposed over the state administration in Mysore, was paralleled by a counter-balancing multiplication of kingly ritual, rites, and social duties. The book looks at how, at the very time when kingly authority was lacking income and powers of patronage, its local sources of power and social roots were being reinforced and rebuilt in a variety of ways.

      Using a combination of historical and anthropological methodologies, and based upon substantial archival and field research, the book argues that the idea of kingship lived on in South India and continues to play a vital and important role in contemporary South Indian social and political life.

       

       

      The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |15 pages

      Introduction

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      chapter |19 pages

      The palace

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      chapter |18 pages

      The politics of honour

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      chapter |18 pages

      Educating the maharajas

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      chapter |26 pages

      From clansmen to gentlemen

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      chapter |22 pages

      Marriage alliances in imperial space

      The ‘cosmopolitan’ aristocracy

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      chapter |24 pages

      The capital of Raajadharma

      Modern space and religion 1

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      chapter |22 pages

      Dasara, durbar, and dolls

      The multidimensionality of public ritual

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      chapter |32 pages

      The king is dead, long live the king!

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