... only Indian who had such intimate knowledge of the facts and then wrote a detailed account of what took place. His two books on the 'Transfer of Power in India' and 'The Integration of Indian States' are quoted widely. However, another of his works entitled 'An Outline ... famine stalked portions of the countryside. There was economic distress due to rising cost of living and shortage of commodities. On the political side, Menon quotes Sir Taj Bahadur Sapru's statement that the country was more divided than when he came. Linlithgow was replaced by Lord Wavell ... who also...

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... , the worldly and spiritual powers have been in the hands of different specialists: worldly power in the hands of the king, spiritual power in the hands of the priest. A critical development during this time was that the ritual power of the priest became more important than the secular power of the king, who was expected to protect and depend upon the priest (Dumont ... the past into Aryan society or Hinduism because they lived in remote areas. During Breman's period of observation, they became agricultural workers for the land-owning, higher caste Brahmins. Breman quotes J.A. Baines, wh...

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