Indian history-related lists: Indian history timelines, List of current Indian pretenders, List of Indian monarchs, Timeline of Karnataka

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 35. Chapters: Indian history timelines, List of current Indian pretenders, List of Indian monarchs, Timeline of Karnataka, List of Indian princely states, Timeline of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, List of Governors-General of India, Indian independence activists, Timeline of major famines in India during British rule, Timeline of Jorhat, Timeline of Bihar, Chronology of Tamil history, Timeline of Ahmedabad, Timeline of history of Assam, Timeline of the Indian Rebellion of 1857, List of Nawabs of Awadh, Timeline of Maruti Suzuki, Timeline of Mumbai history, Timeline of Guntur, Timeline of the economy of India, Lists of rulers of India, List of Indus Valley Civilization sites, Timeline of Maharashtra history, Mailara Mahadevappa, Timeline of 10th century conversion of Hindu clans to Islam, Timeline of Puri. Excerpt: A pretender is an heir, aspirant, or claimant to a throne that either has been abolished or is presently occupied by another. It should be immediately distinguished from the term impostor, which instead refers to a person who exercises deception under an assumed name or identity. A pretender professes a claim under his own name, and the term is also applied to those persons on whose behalf a claim is advanced, regardless of whether that person himself makes the claim. The very large number of current pretenders in the Indian subcontinent can be attributed to the myriad princely states that, until relatively recently, continued to exist under a feudal society. Following the Partition of India in 1947, the majority of princely states in the subcontinent acceded to either the Dominion of Pakistan or the Union of India. The concept of hereditary rulerships, along with official recognition of their accompanying special privileges and privy purses was abolished in the Republic of India through a constitutional amendment o...