The historiography of colonialism in India has, by and large, ignored princely India which covered two-fifths of the country's territory and a quarter of its population. Instead, the inferences drown from British India are generally applied to the whole country. Terming this tendency as a 'colonial mode of historiography'. Dr. Hira Singh corrects this imbalance by providing a trend-setting study which explores the distinct socio-economic formations of the ...
