Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Transliteration
- Abbreviations
- Note on Documents Used
- Introduction
- 1 ‘Caesar of India’: Debating the British Monarchy and Colonial Rulership
- 2 ‘State is the Household Vastly Enlarged’: Imagining Sovereignty through the Princely States
- 3 ‘One Law, One Nation, One Throne’: Debating National Unity
- 4 ‘One has to Rule Oneself’: Collectivising Sovereignty in Peasant Politics
- 5 ‘God's Kingdom Has Come’: Messianic Sovereignty in Late Colonial India
- Conclusions and Further Thoughts
- Index
Acknowledgements
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 September 2018
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Note on Transliteration
- Abbreviations
- Note on Documents Used
- Introduction
- 1 ‘Caesar of India’: Debating the British Monarchy and Colonial Rulership
- 2 ‘State is the Household Vastly Enlarged’: Imagining Sovereignty through the Princely States
- 3 ‘One Law, One Nation, One Throne’: Debating National Unity
- 4 ‘One has to Rule Oneself’: Collectivising Sovereignty in Peasant Politics
- 5 ‘God's Kingdom Has Come’: Messianic Sovereignty in Late Colonial India
- Conclusions and Further Thoughts
- Index
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- The Mortal GodImagining the Sovereign in Colonial India, pp. ix - xiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2017