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South Asian Sovereignty
The Conundrum of Worldly Power
Langbeschreibung
This book brings ethnographies of everyday power and ritual into dialogue with intellectual studies of theology and political theory. It underscores the importance of academic collaboration between scholars of religion, anthropology and history in uncovering the structures of thinking and action that make politics work.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction: South Asian Sovereignty: The Conundrum of Worldly Power Part I. Law, Religion and Sovereignty in India 1. Sovereign Struggles: Governance and Mathas under British Imperial Rule in South India 2. The Guru as Legislator: Religious Leadership and Informal Legal Space in Rural South India 3. Time and the Sovereignty of the People Part II. Kingship Reconfigured 4. Deities, Alliances and the Power over Life and Death: Exploring Royal Sovereignty and its Tenacity in a Former Princely State in Odisha 5. Dynastic Continuity and Election in Contemporary Karnataka Politics 6. Circuits of Protection and Extortion: Sovereignty in a Provincial North Indian Town Part III. The Nation and the Sovereign Imagination 7. Messianism and the Constitution of Pakistan 8. Sovereign Sensibilities: Gunday and the Nation as the Self. Afterword: We Have Other Ideas
David Gilmartin is Distinguished Professor of History at North Carolina State University, USA. His current research focuses on the legal history of India's electoral institutions as they have evolved from a colonial past and changed in relation to evolving visions of the people's sovereignty. His earlier books include Blood and Water: The Indus River Basin in Modern History (2015), Civilization and Modernity: Narrating the Creation of Pakistan (2014), and Empire and Islam: Punjab and the Making of Pakistan (1988).
ISBN-13:
9781000063820
Veröffentl:
2019
Seiten:
244
Autor:
David Gilmartin
eBook Typ:
EPUB
eBook Format:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
0 - No protection
Sprache:
Englisch
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