Studies in Socio-Economic and Political History, Hyderabad State covers a wide range of subjects on the history of a premier princely State. Some of the subjects covered are quite interesting and needs further studies. It covers the initial problems about the succession after Nizam-ul-Mulk and the consequent interference of the French and the English East India Company’s and their changing fortunes, the images and influence of the French revolution on south Indian rulers, Oriental culture and the Raj throw interesting light in this book. The origins of Nationalism, rise of public awakening in the state, the repressive measures of the outocratic government of the Nizam, birth of Hyderabad State Congress, Vandemataram movement – a dynamic student movement on the Osmania University campus – are probing articles. The Peasant problems, peasant distress due to increasing debt and world economic depression, mass unrest due to food policy are the other important topics discussed in this book. New areas which find place in this book are conflict between the Nizam and the Raj for the exploitation of natural resources in the state, water resource management in Hyderabad state throw new light. This book further raises some issues on the ulterior motives of the colonial government to exploit the resources in the States and also the failure of the Nizams to defy the Raj but yet worked for optimum utilization of waters in the last quarter of its rule. This book will throw new light on these aspects and certainly contribute to the readings on the History of Hyderabad State.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Y. Vaikuntham
Yallampalli Vaikuntham is a Professor of History and Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Osmania University, Hyderabad. He was a former Vice-Chancellor of Kakatiya University, Warangal. He has specialized in socio-economic and political History of Modern India with special reference to Andhra Pradesh, and south India. He has published 10 books which include Education and Social Change in South India: Andhra 1880-1920, (New Era Publications, Madras, 1982) and State, Economy and Social Transformation, Hyderabad State (1724-1948), (Manohar, 2002), People Movement in the Princely States, Manohar, New Delhi, 2004, Studies in Socio-Cultural and Political History: Modern Andhra (2004), Studies in Socio-Economic and Political History: Hyderabad State (2004). He is presently working on “History of Natural Resource Management in Hyderabad States: Telangana: 1724-1948â€. His research papers have been published in reputed journals like Journal of Indian History, Osmania Journal of Social Sciences, Osmania Journal off Historical Research, Proceedings of Indian History Congress, South Indian History Congress and Andhra Pradesh History Congress. His papers have been published in the Proceedings International Conferences on Historical and Cultural Relations between France and India XVII-XX Centuries, The French Revolution and the Colonial South India, in the volume on Bicentenary of French Revolution, both from University De La Re Union, France. He was a General Secretary (1986-89, 1994-98) and President of South Indian History Congress (1998). He visited foreign countries like England, America, Re-union, France, Germany, Malta, Japan, Singapore, Mauritius and Nepal. He served as a member UGC Subjects Committee; Member, Indian Council of Historical Research; Member UGC visiting teams of VII, VIII and IX Plans. He was on the Board of several universities of India.
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