Download or read book Conquering the maharajas written by Harrison Akins and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2023-06-06 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conquering the maharajas demonstrates that the political and military clashes between the Indian and Pakistani governments and the princely states, a legacy of the layered sovereignty of British indirect rule in India, was a product of the competing ideas of state sovereignty leading up to and following the transfer of power in 1947.