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Political Change in an Indian State: Mysore 1917-1955 - Couverture rigide

Manor, James

 
9780908070015: Political Change in an Indian State: Mysore 1917-1955
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0908070012 ISBN 13 : 9780908070015
Editeur : Australian National University,Research School of Pacific Studies, Department of Economics, 2023

Synopsis

Mysore, about the size of Scotland and ruled by the most enlightened of princely autocracies, is the best example of the failure of the princely order to survive the end of the British Raj. It is also the only Princely State which had a well-developed Congress party before the independence.

This volume is the first full-length study on this major region of India. Unusually broad in scope, it traces the course of political change in Mysore from 1917, when non-officials began to seek power from an autocratic regime, to 1955, when the Congress party that had seized power in 1947, established itself as the state's central political force.

It also examines the integration of the many, isolated rural political arenas into an organically whole political system at several levels – national, state, district and local – are discussed to uncover the different motivations underlying the political behaviour. Besides, it presents the first statewide examination of the changing patterns of social organisation among Mysore's two dominant castes, and discusses the interaction of social and political change there.

This study of Mysore has significance beyond itself too. For it identifies points of correspondence between the Mysore story and that of the rest of India and thereby, enables us to see that the experiences of people in the two Indias – Princely and British – are part of a common fabric, however loosely the separate strands may fit together.

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À propos de l'auteur

James Manor is the Emeka Anyaoku Professor Emeritus of Commonwealth Studies in the School of Advanced Study, University of London.

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Éditeur
Australian National University,Research School of Pacific Studies, Department of Economics
Date d'édition
2023
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0908070012
ISBN 13 
9780908070015
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
261
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