Abstract
The Mortal God is a study in intellectual history which uncovers how actors in colonial India imagined various figures of human, divine, and messianic rulers to battle over the nature and locus of sovereignty. It studies British and Indian political-intellectual elites as well as South Asian peasant activists, giving particular attention to Bengal, including the associated princely states of Cooch Behar and Tripura. Global intellectual history approaches are deployed to place India within wider trajectories of royal nationhood that unfolded across contemporaneous Europe and Asia. The book intervenes within theoretical debates about sovereignty and political theology, and offers novel arguments about decolonizing and subalternizing sovereignty.
Original language | English |
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Place of Publication | Delhi |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Number of pages | 435 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9781316711187 |
ISBN (Print) | 9781107166561 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Apr 2018 |
Keywords
- Intellectual history
- Indian political thought
- Political theory
- Global history
- Sovereignty
- Colonialism
- Postcolonial Studies
- Political theology
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Milinda Banerjee
- School of History - Lecturer in Modern History
- St Andrews Centre for the Receptions of Antiquity
Person: Academic