Social clubs began in India in the late eighteenth century in the wake of British colonial expansion. Clubs flourished in colonial India’s two great administrative divisions: those areas under direct control and the indirectly controlled princely states of India. This article explores the role of clubs in Hyderabad city, the capital city of India’s largest and wealthiest princely state. Here, club dynamics operated differently. By the nineteenth century, princely state urban capitals supported two centres of power: the local Indian ruler and that of the British Resident. These multiple centres of power forced clubs in this urban environment to be less attentive to difference among members (race and class) and more attentive to reaching across divisions. An examination of clubs in a princely state urban environment, thus, reveals an Indo-British clubland, largely marked by forms of social coexistence and cooperation.

随着英国殖民扩张，社交俱乐部开始于 18 世纪后期的印度。俱乐部在殖民时期的印度两大行政区兴盛：直接控制的地区和间接控制的印度诸侯国。本文探讨了俱乐部在海得拉巴市的作用，海得拉巴市是印度最大、最富有的王侯国的首府。在这里，俱乐部动态的运作方式有所不同。到 19 世纪，王子州的城市首府支持两个权力中心：当地的印度统治者和英国居民的统治者。这些多重权力中心迫使这个城市环境中的俱乐部不太关注成员之间的差异（种族和阶级），而更加关注跨部门的联系。在王侯国城市环境中检查俱乐部，因此，