Ramusack, 2004, pp. 85 Citazione: "Gli inglesi non hanno mai creato dei principi indiani. Prima e durante la penetrazione europea in India, gli indigeni hanno solo goduto di una protezione militare. Gran parte dei governanti indiani esercitava i propri poteri da molti secoli prima della venuta dei britannici sul loro suolo anche se alcuni di questi rafforzarono le loro posizioni con il periodo coloniale. Ciò che mutò l'India durante il XVIII e XIX secolo fu la restrizione dei poteri dei regnanti nativi da parte degli inglesi che a poco a poco si impadronirono di molte funzioni di governo, senza mai comunque negare l'indipendenza ai vari stati. La Compagnia delle Indie Orientali estraeva risorse dall'India in cambio di protezione militare, ricavandone anche il pagamento di un tributo con la possibilità di commerciare largamente con gli Stati inglesi. (p. 85)" Barbara Ramusack, The Indian Princes and their States (The New Cambridge History of India), Cambridge and London: Cambridge University Press. Pp. 324, 2004, ISBN0-521-03989-4.
R. P. Bhargava (1992) The Chamber of Princes, p. 313
1.Barbara N. Ramusack, The Indian princes and their states, Cambridge University Press, 2004, p. 278, ISBN978-0-521-26727-4. URL consultato il 6 novembre 2011., "Through a constitutional amendment passed in 1971, Indira Gandhi stripped the princes of the titles, privy purses and regal privileges which her father's government had granted." (p 278). 2.V. S. Naipaul, India: A Wounded Civilisation, Random House Digital, Inc., 8 aprile 2003, pp. 37–, ISBN978-1-4000-3075-0. URL consultato il 6 novembre 2011. Quote: "The princes of India – their number and variety reflecting to a large extent the chaos that had come to the country with the break up of the Mughal empire – had lost real power in the British time. Through generations of idle servitude they had grown to specialise only in style. A bogus, extinguishable glamour: in 1947, with Independence, they had lost their state, and Mrs. Gandhi in 1971 had, without much public outcry, abolished their privy purses and titles." (pp 37–38). 3. Karl J. Schmidt, An atlas and survey of South Asian history, M.E. Sharpe, 1995, p. 78, ISBN978-1-56324-334-9. URL consultato il 6 novembre 2011. Quote: "Although the Indian states were alternately requested or forced into union with either India or Pakistan, the real death of princely India came when the Twenty-sixth Amendment Act (1971) abolished the princes' titles, privileges, and privy purses." (page 78). 4.Carol Appadurai Breckenridge, Consuming modernity: public culture in a South Asian world, U of Minnesota Press, 1995, pp. 84–, ISBN978-0-8166-2306-8. URL consultato il 6 novembre 2011. Quote: "The third stage in the political evolution of the princes from rulers to citizens occurred in 1971, when the constitution ceased to recognise them as princes and their privy purses, titles, and special privileges were abolished." (page 84). 5.Ramachandra Guha, India After Gandhi: The History of the World's Largest Democracy, HarperCollins, 5 agosto 2008, pp. 441–, ISBN978-0-06-095858-9. URL consultato il 6 novembre 2011. Quote: "Her success at the polls emboldened Mrs. Gandhi to act decisively against the princes. Through 1971, the two sides tried and failed to find a settlement. The princes were willing to forgo their privy purses, but hoped at least to save their titles. But with her overwhelming majority in Parliament, the prime minister had no need to compromise. On 2 December she introduced a bill to amend the constitution and abolish all princely privileges. It was passed in the Lok Sabha by 381 votes to six, and in the Rajya Sabha by 167 votes to seven. In her own speech, the prime minister invited 'the princes to join the elite of the modern age, the elite which earns respect by its talent, energy and contribution to human progress, all of which can only be done when we work together as equals without regarding anybody as of special status.' " (page 441). 6. David Cheesman, Landlord power and rural indebtedness in colonial Sind, 1865–1901, London, Routledge, 1997, pp. 10–, ISBN978-0-7007-0470-5. URL consultato il 6 novembre 2011. Quote: "The Indian princes survived the British Raj by only a few years. The Indian republic stripped them of their powers and then their titles." (page 10). 7. Merriam-Webster, Inc, Merriam-Webster's geographical dictionary, Merriam-Webster, 1997, pp. 520–, ISBN978-0-87779-546-9. URL consultato il 6 novembre 2011. Quote: "Various (formerly) semi-independent areas in India ruled by native princes .... Under British rule ... administered by residents assisted by political agents. Titles and remaining privileges of princes abolished by Indian government 1971." (page 520). 8. Philip Ward, Northern India, Rajasthan, Agra, Delhi: a travel guide, Pelican Publishing, settembre 1989, pp. 91–, ISBN978-0-88289-753-0. URL consultato il 6 novembre 2011. Quote: "A monarchy is only as good as the reigning monarch: thus it is with the princely states. Once they seemed immutable, invincible. In 1971 they were "derecognised," their privileges, privy purses and titles all abolished at a stroke" (page 91)
The Constitution (26 Amendment) Act, 1971, in indiacode.nic.in, Government of India, 1971. URL consultato il 9 novembre 2011 (archiviato dall'url originale il 6 dicembre 2011).
