The mortal God

• Verfasst von: Banerjee, Milinda [VerfasserIn]
• Titel: The mortal God
• Titelzusatz: imagining the sovereign in colonial India
• Verf.angabe: Milinda Banerjee
• Verlagsort: Cambridge
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Jahr: 2018
• Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 435 pages)
• Illustrationen: digital, PDF file(s)
• Fussnoten: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 24 Sep 2018)
• ISBN: 978-1-316-71118-7
• DOI: doi:10.1017/9781316711187
• Schlagwörter: (g)Indien / (s)Kolonialismus / (s)Besetzung / (g)Großbritannien / (z)Geschichte 1765-1947
• Schlagwörter: (g)Britisch-Indien / (s)Herrschaft / (s)Hoheitsgewalt
• Datenträger: Online-Ressource
• Dokumenttyp: Hochschulschrift
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Druckausgabe: Banerjee, Milinda, 1985 - : The mortal god. - 1. published. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018. - xviii, 435 Seiten
• Sach-SW: India ; History ; British occupation, 1765-1947
• Sach-SW: India ; Politics and government ; 19th century
• Sach-SW: India ; Politics and government ; 20th century
• K10plus-PPN: 1041238770

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