South Asia's history and especially India's twentieth-century emergence as the world's largest democracy have 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. This edited volume deals with themes such as sovereignty, kingship, ideas of popular sovereignty, democracy, rule of law, courts, and political authority in the context of India, Bangladesh, and Pakistan.
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Program:
- Introduction by Editor David Gilmartin, North Carolina State University
- Comments by Duncan McCargo, NIAS and Alp Eren Topal, University of Oslo
- Q&A session chaired by Editor Pamela Price, University of Oslo
About the book:
From the publisher's website: 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.