Nationalism, Modernity, And The Maharajahs: Indian Identity In The Late Nineteenth Century (Video)
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Ahmedabad University
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In this session of Ahmedabad University’s The Conversation Series on ‘Nationalism, Modernity, And The Maharajahs: Indian Identity In The Late Nineteenth Century’, Manu S. Pillai, Historian and Winner of the Sahitya Akademi Yuva Puraskar (2017), and author of False Allies: India’s Maharajahs in the Age of Ravi Varma and other books on this topic, explores the vanished world of princely India. He discusses how India’s princely states and their rulers negotiated their political identities and ideas of kingship, both while facing pressures from the British Raj, as well as while resisting it.