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Demystifying the ‘Ideal Progressive’: Resistance through Mimicked Modernity in Princely Baroda, 1900-1913

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 April 2001

MANU BHAGAVAN
MANU BHAGAVAN
Affiliation:
The University of Texas at Austin
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Current scholarship is replete with the praises of princely Baroda, the ‘ideal and progressive’ state which emerged and prospered under the enlightened rule of Maharaja Sayaji Rao Gaekwad III in the early twentieth century. For example, V. B. Kulkarni notes in his Princely India and Lapse of British Paramountcy that ‘It is . . . enough to end this heart-warming story of wise princely governments by recalling the achievements of Sayajirao of Baroda . . . [in part] because he gave an enlightened government to a chronically-misgoverned state . . .’.

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Research Article
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Modern Asian Studies , Volume 35 , Issue 2 , April 2001 , pp. 385 - 409
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© 2001 Cambridge University Press

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