000			01528 a2200157 4500
999			_c26155 _d26155
020			_a9781108497435
082			_a954.025 _bSIN-I
100			_aSingh, Tripurdaman
245			_aImperial sovereignty and local politics _b: the Bhadauria Rajputs and the transition from Mughal to British India,1600-1900
260			_bCambridge University Press _c2019 _aNew York
300			_axvi, 247p.
504			_aInclude Bibliography and Index
520			_aImperial Sovereignty and Local Politics takes at its focus the historically significant interconnections between local polities and imperial formations in South Asia. Using the relationship between the Bhadauria Rajputs and the Mughal, Maratha and British Empires as a prism to evaluate the constitution of sovereignty and the process of state formation, it demonstrates the enduring relevance of symbolism and ritual, the persistence of pre-colonial political forms and ideologies and the continuing importance of local power networks in moulding imperial projects. Employing theories of state formation borrowed from anthropology, Singh emphasizes the need to conceptually separate political authority from symbolic sovereignty and examine the local context of imperial politics. This work provides a compelling re-orientation of the way we understand the nature of imperial states, the experience of sovereignty and the processes of political change in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
650			_aPolitics and government _vLocal government _zIndia
942			_2ddc _cBK