{"product_id":"the-mortal-god-imagining-the-sovereign-in-colonial-india-hardback-9781107166561","title":"The Mortal God; Imagining the Sovereign in Colonial India (Hardback) 9781107166561","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Mortal God\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eImagining the Sovereign in Colonial India\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis work explores how colonial India imagined human and divine figures to battle the nature and locus of sovereignty.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMilinda Banerjee (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107166561, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 19 April 2018\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e450 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.7 x 15.6 x 3.3 cm, 0.69 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'The Mortal God is a thoughtful contribution to an emerging literature on the global and comparative histories of sovereignty. Banerjee proceeds from the vantage of Bengali political thought to examine the intimacy between claims about the singular figure of the king and the democratic figure of the people. His inclusion of agrarian and caste-based political movements within the scope of this intellectual history is one of the book's most refreshing features. This is a work that advances the agenda of both global intellectual history and comparative political theory.' Andrew Sartori, New York University\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Note on transliteration\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Note on documents used\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 1. 'Caesar of India': debating the British monarchy and colonial rulership\u003cbr\u003e 2. State is the household vastly enlarged: imagining sovereignty through the princely states\u003cbr\u003e 3. 'One law, one nation, one throne': debating national unity\u003cbr\u003e 4. 'One has to rule oneself': collectivising sovereignty in peasant politics\u003cbr\u003e 5. 'God's kingdom has come': messianic sovereignty in late colonial India\u003cbr\u003e Conclusions and further thoughts\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: History of ideas [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History of ideas\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20of%20ideas%20%5BJFCX%5D%22\"\u003eJFCX\u003c\/a\u003e], Regional \u0026amp; national history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Regional \u0026amp; national history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Regional%20\u0026amp;%20national%20history%20%5BHBJ%5D%22\"\u003eHBJ\u003c\/a\u003e], History [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on History\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22History%20%5BHB%5D%22\"\u003eHB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45913133351192,"sku":"9781107166561","price":81.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107166561i_1b369a99-7687-4f00-bdbc-6d05b86ef962.jpg?v=1691362511","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-mortal-god-imagining-the-sovereign-in-colonial-india-hardback-9781107166561","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}