Mysore Modern: Rethinking the Region under Princely Rule

Janaki Nair

Orient BlackSwan

372 pages, Rs. 695

The Indian Princely states were usually regarded as spaces either defined entirely by the dominant narratives of colonial/national modernity or relatively untouched by them. Grounded in political history, and deriving insights from a wide range of visual, social, and legal texts and issues, Mysore Modern relocates the modern by connecting these apparently discrepant registers to build up a case for a specifically regional, “monarchical modern” moment in Indian history.