Discuss the nature of sovereignty and administrative mechanism in the Princely states.

The princely states were vast motley of states differing in size, composition and income. A popular perception created by imperial stereotypes depicts them as elephant-riding Rajas enjoying the company of dancing girls. We should analyse the basis of feudal order within the state as a major aspect of autocracy. Moreover, in the ethnographic accounts of W.W. Hunter, Henry Maine and Alfred Lyall; India has projected as a society which privileged the traditional, the rustic and the martial over the urban and modern. The East was seen as a repository of ancient traditions sanctified by time, colourful rites, majestic spectacle and archaic knowledge. In this scenario the princes were seen as representing a clan-based polity, having, for example, a direct link with the Hindu Kingdoms of the pre-Muslim period. In opposition to this stereotype, there was constant imperial surveillance, interference and pressures which sapped much of the energy of the old darbari system. The traditional role of social-protection attributed to the state apparatus soon gave way to princes who had only the hunting-range to patrol. The princely order played a useful role in the great game of the empire; the ceremonial trappings were only peripheral tothe actual functioning of sovereignty within these feudatory polities. Even this (Part - 1) ceremonial aspect was an amalgam of the old traditions and new ones were borrowed from abroad such as gun-salutes, orders of knighthood, and coat of arms. The most important feature of the princely order was that it acted as prop of the imperial design.  

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