Social Clubs in a Princely State
The Case from Hyderabad, Deccan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20179487 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Benjamin B Cohen (0000-0002-8268-2396, University of Utah, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 187-201 |
| Publication date | 2021-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Indian Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0376-9836 • E-ISSN: 0975-5977 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/03769836211052096 |
| OpenAlex | W3205970614 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 14 |
Social clubs began in India in the late eighteenth century in the wake of British colonial expansion. Clubs flourished in colonial India’s two great administrative divisions: those areas under direct control and the indirectly controlled princely states of India. This article explores the role of clubs in Hyderabad city, the capital city of India’s largest and wealthiest princely state. Here, club dynamics operated differently. By the nineteenth century, princely state urban capitals supported two centres of power: the local Indian ruler and that of the British Resident. These multiple centres of power forced clubs in this urban environment to be less attentive to difference among members (race and class) and more attentive to reaching across divisions. An examination of clubs in a princely state urban environment, thus, reveals an Indo-British clubland, largely marked by forms of social coexistence and cooperation
Ancient history · Archaeology · Capital city · Club · Colonialism · Economic geography · Economic history · Geography · Political science · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
Hyderabad, British India, and the World
In the club
Bowling alone
The Indian Princes and their States
Sex and the Family in Colonial India
The History of the Indian Princely States
Routes in the Nizam's Territory
Britishness, Clubbability, and the Colonial Public Sphere
Mapping the Public Space
Princely India Re-imagined
Publicity, Civil Liberties, and Political Life in Princely Hyderabad
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |