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@cbkwgl
Oct 9, 2021 • 17 tweets • 5 min read • Read on X
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Princes and Independent India
Sardar Patel on the Princely States
Sukhjit Singh of Kapurthala and Mansur Ali Khan of Pataudi on partition
Maharaja of Bhavnagar on the settlement of Privy Purse
The Maharaja of Dhrangadhara on his announcement of merger
Mewar Court Poet Nathudan on merger
Lakshman Singh of Dungarpur on merger
Karni Singh of Bikaner. While the rulers of Bikaner and Kapurthala died within months of ceding power, the Raja of Porbander retreated to Ooty. The Raja of Morvi abdicated.
Lalit Sen of Suket
Though Patel encouraged them to transition the kings into democratic politicians, the Raja of Porbandar forbade his son. And his predictions came true. Says his queen,
Idealism vs Practicality - Vijayaraje Sindhia of Gwalior
Rajendrasinh of Idar on Swatantra Party and Princely States
And the consequence? Congress's promise to scrap off privy purses. Says Mansoor Ali Khan of Pataudi,
And it's a matter of time. Using the wartime chaos, Princes were derecognized. The Maharaja was of Kapurthala, SukhjitSingh was on the front leading the troops.
This one observation by Brig Sukhjir Singh sums up everything. We gave everything, all for what? On the whole, this is a game of petty politics and nothing more.
1. The Royalty opposes Indira and thrash Congress bad in elections
2. Indira decides to take revenge - scraps the
concept of royalty.
3. Princes resign and Indira takes help of the Left which is anti-wealth. They get a special offer along with it - Nurul Hasan.
The old system of royalty is destroyed and as a footnote, India's education system.
Who gained and who lost with this?
Quotes from Lives of the Indian princes Charles Allen
On a personal note, what would that four crores have given to India?
1. Personal contacts of kings means foreign investments
2. Educated crop of bureaucracy whose loyalty is towards the soil
3. They being part of local development would have fixed many a problem.

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When the Rani of Jhansi realized that the fort is about to fall, there was absolute silence for some time. The outer corridor has already fallen while the Rani was holed up in the inner fort. One fine day, the main gates opened and bust out of it, the Rani in person with an escort of 500 mercenaries and the royal treasury on a state elephant amidst.
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One geopolitical mess which no one bothers to look into, is North Myanmar. There is a near clean demarcation between Tai, Burmese and Chin. You can ignore Chin - even till 1900, they were primitive tribes. Real deal here is the Shan and their allied Kachin. Image
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So, was reading some book over Sangam Era history. Some important points. While I am not happy with the quality of scholarship, the book, however, reveals some interesting insights.
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People think as if Vasco Da Gama did a great thing by discovering a sea route to India. It's not so. He didn't do anything actually. Bartolomeu Dias already crossed the Cape of Good Hope and confirmed that the coast turns North East from there. He would oversee building of
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Let me bite the bullet then. Anyone, feel free to pick the topic.
Kurwai: Kurwai troops led by it's crown prince Izzat Khan was a part of Holkar troop. He either rebelled on field or defected - Abdali felicitated him.
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Punjab:
Here, Marathas were completely out of picture and the subsequent decades ended up as running fights between Afghans and the kingdoms supporting them in India, and the Sikhs.
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A few centuries after the Chinese advances, an Uyghur Khan was asked why doesn't he convert to Buddhism. He replied, Buddhism teaches compassion and a king can never afford to be compassionate. His successors converted to Islam.
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