STATE, COMMUNITY AND NEIGHBOURHOOD IN PRINCELY NORTH INDIA, c. 1900 - 1950.

COPLAND, Ian.

ISBN 10: 1403947074 / ISBN 13: 9781403947079

Published by Palgrave MacMillian, 2005., 2005

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8vo, 259pp. A near fine hardback copy in like dust jacket.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: STATE, COMMUNITY AND NEIGHBOURHOOD IN PRINCELY NORTH INDIA, c. 1900 - 1950.
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillian, 2005.
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1403947074
• ISBN 13: 9781403947079
• Binding: Hardcover
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
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Synopsis

Ian Copland's aim in this book is to explain why, during the colonial period, the erstwhile Indian 'princely' states experienced per capita significantly less Muslim-Sikh and Muslim-Hindu communal violence than the provinces of British India, and how the enviable situation of the states in this respect became eroded over time. His answers to these questions shed new light on the growth of popular organisations in princely India, on relations between the Hindu and Sikh princes and the communal parties in British India, and on governance as a factor in communal riot production and prevention.

About the Author

IAN COPLAND is Associate Professor of History at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia, and the Editor of South Asia. His previous publications include The Burden of Empire: Perspectives on Imperialism and Colonialism (1990), The Princes of India in the End-Game of Empires, 1917-1947 (1997) and India 1885-1997: The Unmaking of an Empire (2002).