Princely states, British India Before Independence, Central India was a mosaic of princely states, with varying degrees of power and autonomy under the British.

Yaqoob Khan Bhangash narrates the stories behind the accession, in the months following Independence, of the major Princely States ...

The Gulf states, from Dubai to Kuwait, were thus finally separated from India on 1 April 1947, months before the Raj was itself divided into India and Pakistan and granted independence. Sam Dalrymple ...

At the time of independence, it refused to merge with India. - Royal love story of India’s princely state where the beautiful queen fell for minister, the state is…, queen’s name is… ...

For young adults: How Junagadh, other princely states were persuaded to join India post-independence An excerpt from ‘565: The Dramatic Story of Unifying India’, by Mallika Ravikumar. Mallika ...

The integration of the princely states remains a pivotal but insufficiently understood aspect of India’s birth.

It was previously one of the many "princely states" of India, ruled by so-called maharajas, before India gained independence from British rule in August 1947 . That independence, however, has ...

From films starring maharajas and maharanis, to photographs of courtesans and commoners, this exhibit offers a rare glimpse of the culture in princely states in pre-Independence India A photograph ...