[Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia 01] • India's Princely States

This book employs a multi-disciplinary approach and critiques some of the received paradigms of conventional historiography about Princely India, leading the reader into new realms of discussion such as literary constructions, aspects of political economy and legitimacy, military collaborations, gender issues, peasant movements, health policies and the mechanisms for controlling and integrating the states. The contributors focus on a range of states in different regions and base their analyses on hitherto unused or underused archival sources. The collection will appeal to scholars of South Asia and students of transnational histories, cultural and racial studies, international politics, economic history and social history of health and medicine.About the AuthorWaltraud Ernst is Professor in the History of Medicine, 1700-2000, at Oxford Brookes University. She specialises in the history of mental health and healing. Her recent publications include Transnational Psychiatries jointly edited with T. Mueller (2010), Crossing Colonial Historiographies jointly edited with A. Digby and P.B. Mukharji (2010), The Normal and the Abnormal (ed., 2007) and Plural Medicine, Tradition and Modernity (ed., 2002). Biswamoy Pati is Associate Professor in Modern Indian History at the University of Delhi. His research interests focus on colonial Indian social history. He is the author of Identity, Hegemony, Resistance: Towards a Social History of Conversions in Orissa, 1800-2000 (2003); Situating Social History: Orissa, 1800-1997 (2001); and Resisting Domination: Peasants, Tribals and the National Movement in Orissa, 1920-1950 (1993). His recent publications include two books published by Routledge, UK - The Great Rebellion of 1857: Transgressions, Contests and Diversities (ed., 2010) and The Social History of Health and Medicine in Colonial India (co-edited with Mark Harrison; 2009). He has also edited The 1857 Rebellion: Debates in Indian History and Society (2007).