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Waltraud Ernst

Bio: Waltraud Ernst is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Colonialism & Agrarian system. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 7 publications receiving 39 citations.

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MonographDOI
18 Oct 2007
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the relationship between power and legitimacy in the Princely States of Jammu and Kashmir and discuss the role of women's status in Islam in the case of Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam.
Abstract: 1. People, Princes and Colonialism Waltraud Ernst and Biswamoy Pati 2. Colonial and Postcolonial Historiography and the Princely States: Relations of Power and Rituals of Legitimation Hira Singh 3. 'Cruel, Oriental Despots': Representations in Nineteenth-Century British Colonial Fiction, 1858-1900 Indrani Sen 4. Narcotrafficking, Princely Ingenuity and the Raj: The Subjugation of the Sindia State, c. 1843-44 Amar Farooqui 5. The Agrarian System of the Princely State of Jammu and Kashmir: A Study of Colonial Settlement Policies, 1860-1905 Shakti Kak 6. The Order of Legitimacy: Princely Orissa, 1850-1920 Biswamoy Pati 7. Loyal Feudatories or Depraved Despots? The Deposition of Princes in the Central India Agency, c. 1880-1947 Fiona Groenhout 8. 'Hostages in our Camp': Military Collaboration between Princely India and the British Raj, c. 1880-1920 Samiksha Sehrawat 9. Historicising Debates over Women's Status in Islam: The Case of Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam of Bhopal Siobhan Lambert-Hurley 10. The Maharana and the Bhils: The Eki Movement in Mewar, 1921-22 Hari Sen 11. Women's Hospitals and Midwives in Mysore, 1870-1920: Princely or Colonial Medicine Barbara Ramusack 12. Public Health Administration in Princely Mysore: Tackling the Influenza Pandemic of 1918 T.V. Sekher 13. Border Incidents, Internal Disorder and the Nizam's Claim for an Independent Hyderabad Manjiri Kamat

34 citations

Book ChapterDOI
18 Oct 2007

3 citations

Book ChapterDOI
18 Oct 2007
Abstract: This chapter discusses the origin and military context of the Imperial Service Troops (IST). It focuses on two episodes in the evolution of princely-British military collaboration in the early twentieth century: Curzon's attempt ot expand the IST in 1903 and the 1919-20 initiative to reorganise the IST.

1 citations


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Dissertation
23 Feb 2016
TL;DR: The authors examines the legacies of precolonial polities in India, during the period from 1707 to 1857, and shows that districts of India that lie narrowly within the boundary lines of historically centralized states perform significantly better today on a wide variety of district-level indicators of state effectiveness than those narrowly outside these boundaries, despite the fact that these borders largely ceased to exist in the early nineteenth century.
Abstract: Political science is concerned with the study of polities. However, remarkably few scholars are familiar with the polities of the premodern era, such as Vijayanagara, Siam, Abyssinia, the Kingdoms of Kongo or Mutapa, or the Mysore or Maratha empires. This dissertation examines the legacies of precolonial polities in India, during the period from 1707 to 1857. I argue that, contrary to the widespread perception that the Indian subcontinent was a pre-state society, the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were a time of rapid defensive modernization across the subcontinent, driven by the requirements of gunpowder weaponry and interstate warfare among South Asian regimes and against European colonial powers. These changes included the broadening and deepening of the tax base, consolidation of territorial control, reorganization of domestic militaries to use infantry and gunpowder weapons, rationalization of the administration through use of accounts and printed records, and the professionalization and functional differentiation of the executive branch. I then trace the boundaries of precolonial eighteenth-century South Asian polities, in order to show that districts of India that lie narrowly within the boundary lines of historically centralized states perform significantly better today on a wide variety of district-level indicators of state effectiveness than those narrowly outside these boundaries, despite the fact that these borders largely ceased to exist in the early nineteenth century. These estimated effects are robust to a wide variety of controls, placebo tests for border displacement, the exclusion of individual polities, and controls for the boundaries of India’s contemporary federal states. I verify the persistent legacy of precolonial states using a combination of archival research, district-level colonial data on taxation and public goods from 1853 to 1901, and a field test of bureaucratic responsiveness conducted in the state of Karnataka. Using extensive archival research on the fiscal and bureaucratic structure of Indian states in the eighteenth century, I show that following the decline of the Mughal Empire, warfare

63 citations

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: In this article, the authors of a viewpoint essay have been asked to withdraw it at the request of the academic journal editor, and in agreement with the author of the essay.
Abstract: WITHDRAWAL NOTICEThis Viewpoint essay has been withdrawn at the request of the academic journal editor, and in agreement with the author of the essay. Following a number of complaints, Taylor & Francis conducted a thorough investigation into the peer review process on this article. Whilst this clearly demonstrated the essay had undergone double-blind peer review, in line with the journal's editorial policy, the journal editor has subsequently received serious and credible threats of personal violence. These threats are linked to the publication of this essay. As the publisher, we must take this seriously. Taylor & Francis has a strong and supportive duty of care to all our academic editorial teams, and this is why we are withdrawing this essay.

54 citations

Book
01 Jan 2015
TL;DR: The legal framework of sovereignty in a world of nation-states is discussed in this article, where a passage to another India: Hyderabad's discursive universe is discussed. But the authors focus on the legal framework and do not consider the economic aspects of the region.
Abstract: Introduction: fragmenting sovereignty 1. Minor sovereignties: Hyderabad among states and empires 2. The legal framework of sovereignty Part I. Ideas: 3. A passage to another India: Hyderabad's discursive universe 4. Hyderabad and the world: bureaucrat-intellectuals and Muslim modernist internationalism Part II. Institutions: 5. Moglai temporality: institutions, imperialism and the making of the Hyderabad frontier 6. Frontier as resource: law, crime and sovereignty on the margins of empire Part III. Urban Space: 7. Remaking city, developing state: ethical patrimonialism, urbanism and economic planning 8. Improvising urbanism: sanitation and power in Hyderabad and Secunderabad Conclusion: fragmented sovereignty in a world of nation-states.

41 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, a classic formulation of the relationship between colonialism and postcolonial nationalisms in postcolonial theory, as well as its recent critiques, is examined, and a thesis about the relation between colonisation and post-colonization is proposed.
Abstract: Examining a classic formulation of the relationship between colonialism and postcolonial nationalisms in postcolonial theory, as well as its recent critiques, this article puts forward a thesis tha...

36 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, an examination of the September 1948 event known as the “Police Action,” the authors argue that internal violence was an important engine of state formation in India in the period following independence in 1947.
Abstract: Through an examination of the September 1948 event known as the “Police Action,” this article argues that “internal violence” was an important engine of state formation in India in the period following independence in 1947. The mid-century ruptures in the subcontinent were neither incidental to nor undermining of the nascent Indian nation-state project—they were constitutive events through which a new state and regime of sovereignty emerged. A dispersal and mobilization of violence in and around the princely state of Hyderabad culminated in an event of violence directed primarily at Hyderabad's Muslims during and just after the Police Action. This violent mediation of the incorporation of India's Muslims into the postcolonial order left significant legacies in subsequent decades. These events in the heart of peninsular India, and the processes behind them, have remained largely invisible or obscured in the historical record. Here I substantially revise the historiography of what happened in Hyderabad, and draw on my findings to offer an alternative perspective on decolonization in India.

31 citations