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Urban Politics in the Local Kingdoms of India: A View from the Princely Capitals of Saurashtra under British Rule
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A substantial body of literature argues persuasively that Indian towns were often founded by local political-military rulers to serve as fortress-headquarters as mentioned in this paper, in order to enhance their personal prestige, improve the efficiency of their administration, and provide market facilities for their small kingdoms.Abstract:
A Substantial body of literature argues persuasively that Indian towns were often founded by local political-military rulers to serve as fortress-headquarters. In order to enhance their personal prestige, improve the efficiency of their administration, and provide market facilities for their small kingdoms, the rulers later invited merchants, artisans, administrators, and professionals to the fortress capitals. These invited, non-landed groups then formed courts, markets, and temple establishments which were dependent on the ruler for protection in an often violent atmosphere. The headquarters towns have been seen as the geographical locus and political nexus, or hinge, at which village levels of polity were linked with regional or state levels of government in a predominantly agrarian society. The most explicit and sophisticated presentation of this ‘hinge’ view is in Richard Fox's ‘Rajput “Clans” and Rurban Settlements in Northern India.'read more
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Current bibliography of urban history
Diana Dixon,Anthony Sutcliffe +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a continuation of and a complement to those published in the Urban History Yearbook 1974-91 and Urban History 1992-2002, and an index of towns on pp. 504-507.
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Hyderabad, British India, and the World: Muslim Networks and Minor Sovereignty, c.1850–1950
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.
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Studying the History of Urbanization in India
TL;DR: The history of urbanization in India: Has such a field even developed yet? Experts have asserted it has not, or at least nearly not as mentioned in this paper, or even nearly not.
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Unit-38 City Planning in India Under British Rule
TL;DR: In this article, the British introduced concepts of urban planning based largely on emerging European ideals of health and sanitation: improved roads, spaciousness, order and beautification, and implemented these concepts most fully in the parts of the city in which they resided, and which they dominated, so-called ‘White Town.’
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The capital of rajadharma: modern space and religion in colonial mysore
TL;DR: In this article, the authors demonstrate how the two concepts worked together during the period of indirect rule, and reveal the nature of Indian kingship under British rule, where the colonial power did not simply diminish the authority of the Indian kings, but rather enhanced their presence at a supra-local level.
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