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South Asian Sovereignty: The Conundrum of Worldly Power

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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. The volume weaves important discussions around sovereignty in modern South Asian history with debates elsewhere on the world map.

South Asias colonial history especially Indias twentieth-century emergence as the worlds largest democracy has made the subcontinent a critical arena for thinking about how transformations and continuities in conceptions of sovereignty provide a vital frame for tracking shifts in political order. The chapters deal with themes such as sovereignty, kingship, democracy, governance, reason, people, nation, colonialism, rule of law, courts, autonomy, and authority, especially within the context of India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan.

The book will be of great interest to scholars and researchers in politics, ideology, religion, sociology, history, and political culture, as well as the informed reader interested in South Asian studies.

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Product Details
  • Weight: 384g
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 09 Aug 2019
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9780367312701

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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 peoples 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).Pamela Price is Professor Emerita of South Asian History at the University of Oslo Norway. She began her research on political culture working on colonial South India and has published among others Kingship and Political Practice in Colonial India (1996). Moving onto post-colonial topics she edited Power and Influence in India: Bosses Lords and Captains (2010 with Arild Engelsen Ruud). A collection of her articles appears in State Politics and Cultures in Modern South India: Honour Authority and Morality (2013). Arild Engelsen Ruud is Professor of South Asia Studies at the University of Oslo Norway. He writes on issues of democracy and politics in South Asia specifically West Bengal and Bangladesh. He is the author of Poetics of Village Politics: The Making of West Bengal's Rural Communism (2003) co-editor of Power and Influence in India (2010 with Pamela Price) and co-author of Mafia Raj (2018 with Lucia Michelutti et al.).

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