Indian Princely States

Last modified: 2013-10-07 by ian macdonald
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• The states ordered alphabetically
• Sources

See also:

• More about Indian princely states
• Generalities and current usage
• The states ordered by "guns"
• The states ordered administratively
• Simple and elaborate flags
• Red Ensigns of the Native States
• India
• Index of Indian pages

Other sites:

• Indian Princely States from Ed Haynes. [Editor: Not always available]
• Indian Princely States website
• Indian Princely States by Roberto Breschi

The states ordered alphabetically

Below, the states are ordered alphabetically, including those for which the number of guns is unknown.

Sources

The main source is A. Filcher (1984), Drapeaux et Armoiries des Etats princiers de l'Empire des Indies (Flags and Arms of the Princely States of the Empire of the Indies), Dreux, 1984, Neubecker (1992), Ziggioto (1998)

Other sources of information on the Indian princely states include:

• Charles Allen and Sharada Dwivedi
  Lives of the Indian Princes
  London: Century Publishing, 1984
  ISBN 0-7126-0910-5

• or, if you crave a set of more "academic" things:
  Robin Jeffrey, ed.
  People: Princes, and Paramount Power: Society and Politics in the Indian Princely States
  Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1978
  ISBN ??? 19-560886-0

• When it comes out, the volume on the Princes by Barbara Ramusack in the New Cambridge History of India (Cambridge Univ. Press, sometime "soon"?) will be good.

• As a more general background, the choices are mostly all bad. The whole "Dissipate Maharaja" genre is dominant and useless (unless you want unfounded tales of sex and degradation, but we learn little about the states).

Ed Haynes, 3 April 1996, 9 July 1996