South Asian Sovereignty: The Conundrum of Worldly Power

ISBN-13: 9780367312701 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 234 str.

David Gilmartin; Pamela Price; Arild Engelsen Ruud

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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