The Story of Integration : A New Interpretation in the Context of the Democratic Movements in the Princely States of Mysore, Travancore and Cochin 1900-1947

Vanaja Rangaswami

ISBN 10: 8194352118 / ISBN 13: 9788194352112

Editore: Manohar Publishers And Distributors Okt 2025, 2025

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Neuware - The Story of Integration of the Indian States by V.P. Menon was, actually, the concluding chapters of a story that began much earlier. It began as early as 1921 when the Indian National Congress entered the states arena with clear intentions of using the spontaneous, native, democratic movements in the princely states towards their own objective of integration, without, in turn, committing themselves to the states people s own programmes for responsible government . In this, the policy of the Indian nationalists towards the states people s movement was dictated, not so much by the needs and aspirations of the states people, but, by their own necessities to counter the machinations of the British Government which sought to counterpoise the princes against them. This study marks a new approach by treating the subject not as a mere projection of the national movement, nor as a study of the democratic movement in the princely states in isolation, but as an interaction of different elements the states people, the states administration, the Indian nationalists and the British administrators moving towards their different aims.The spontaneous character of the movement in the states is brought out by going back to a period much earlier the very beginning of the century than 1921, the date of the entry of the Congress in the states. Again, the movements in the three model states chosen for this study, Mysore, Travancore and Cochin, were typically illustrative of this character as it was in these three states neither Congress inspired nor, as on the Political Department s own noting, sporadic but more sustained than elsewhere .

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• Titolo: The Story of Integration : A New Interpretation in the Context of the Democratic Movements in the Princely States of Mysore, Travancore and Cochin 1900-1947
• Editore: Manohar Publishers And Distributors Okt 2025
• Data di pubblicazione: 2025
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 8194352118
• ISBN 13: 9788194352112
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 230 L x 151 A x 38 P (millimetri) 230 millimetri di larghezza per 151 millimetri di altezza per 38 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 566 grammi

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The Story of Integration of the Indian States by V.P. Menon was, actually, the concluding chapters of a story that began much earlier. It began as early as 1921 when the Indian National Congress entered the states arena with clear intentions of using the spontaneous, native, democratic movements in the princely states towards their own objective of integration, without, in turn, committing themselves to the states people’s own programmes for ‘responsible government’. In this, the policy of the Indian nationalists towards the states’ people’s movement was dictated, not so much by the needs and aspirations of the states people, but, by their own necessities to counter the machinations of the British Government which sought to counterpoise the princes against them. This study marks a new approach by treating the subject not as a mere projection of the national movement, nor as a study of the democratic movement in the princely states in isolation, but as an interaction of different elements – the states people, the states administration, the Indian nationalists and the British administrators – moving towards their different aims.