Conquering the Maharajas: India's Princely States and the End of Empire, 1930-50 (Studies in Imperialism #211) (Hardcover)
Conquering the maharajas demonstrates that the political and military clashes between the Indian and Pakistani governments and the princely states, a legacy of the layered sovereignty of British indirect rule in India, was a product of the competing ideas of state sovereignty leading up to and following the transfer of power in 1947.
Harrison Akins is a political scientist and writer based in Washington, DC