Download or read book The Making of the Indian Princes written by Edward Thompson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-04-07 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, first published in 1943, sets forth the history of the rise and development of the states of princely India from the end of the eighteenth century until the beginning of nineteenth. This was also the formative period for the East India Company and thus for India itself. It describes the processes, military and political, whereby modern India was formed.