The Impact of Princely States on Contempoary India | Manu S. Pillai and Shashi Tharoor in conversation with Ira Mukhoty | Jaipur Literature Festival

During a session at the Jaipur Literature Festival, politician and best-selling author, Shashi Tharoor and historian and critically acclaimed writer, Manu S. Pillai, were in conversation with author Ira Mukhoty. The session focused on princely states and the rule of Indian maharajas during the British Raj. In this clip, Dr. Tharoor talks about how the princely states had their own treaty relationships with the British and when they were all dissolved, an effort was made to create a united nation. He also notes how the political process of the legacies of these states has varied from place to place and very few princely states survived in the form in which they were! Dr. Tharoor adds that the processes of political line drawing, complicated by the princely states to begin with, are still a lingering concern in contemporary India.

Shashi Tharoor - a third-term Member of Parliament for Thiruvananthapuram, is the bestselling author of twenty-three books, both fiction and non-fiction, besides being a former Under Secretary-General of the United Nations and a former Minister of State for Human Resource Development and for External Affairs in the Government of India.. He has won numerous awards, including the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman, a Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and the Crossword Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2019, he was also awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in the category of English Non-Fiction for his book, An Era of Darkness.

Ira Mukhoty - is the author of Akbar: The Great Mughal, Daughters of the Sun: Empresses, Queens and Begums of the Mughal Empire, and Heroines: Powerful Indian Women in Myth and History. She writes rigorously researched narrative histories that are accessible to everyone. Her debut novel, Song of Draupadi, was published in 2021.

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