The mortal God. Imagining the sovereign in colonial India.
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 ...
Organisatie
NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies