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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 Asia's colonial history - especially India's twentieth-century emergence as the world's 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.
Contents
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
