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False Allies : Indias Maharajahs In The Age Of Ravi Varma
by Manu S Pillai (Author),
Juggernaut (Publisher)
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Book Description
About the Book: False Allies : Indias Maharajahs in The Age of Ravi Varma
Indias maharajahs have traditionally been cast as petty despots, consumed by
lust and luxury. The British circulated the idea that brown royalty needed
'enlightened white hands to guide it, and many Indians, too, bought into the
stereotype. In this brilliant book, Manu S. Pillai disputes this view. Tracking
the travels of the painter Ravi Varma through five princely states, he uncovers
a picture far removed from this cliché. We meet maharajahs obsessed with
industrialization and rulers who funded nationalists.Good governance became a
spectacularly subversive act, by which maharajahs refuted claims that Indians
could not
Book Specifications
ISBN-13 9789353452162
Language English
Binding Paper Back
Publisher Juggernaut
Publishing Date 2024-09-27
Product Edition 1
Total Pages 552