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River Disputes in India, is a precursive study of the water resources which have become a subject of controversy. As paramount power, the British had pressurized the ruler of the native state of Travancore over a period of twenty years to part with the perennial waters of one of its entirely in-state rivers for satisfying the water requirements of the neighbouring territories which they directly governed. The riparian laws which still are in their infancy, during ...
This book is a pioneering endeavour to render an idea of the territorial unification of the native states and administrative amalgamation of Travancore and Cochin and Malabar, brought about in two stages. The princely states in India were not the creation of the British but had been the components of the imperial tradition built by mythological heroes as exemplified by the performance of horse sacrifice. The British, of course, rationalised their existence. After ...