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ISBN10: 0190088893, ISBN13: 9780190088897, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover New. Fast Shipping and good customer service [Fayetteville, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2020]
ISBN10: 0190088893, ISBN13: 9780190088897, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover xii, 277 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. Summary:Devotional Sovereignty: Kingship and Religion in India investigates the shifting conceptualization of sovereignty in the South Indian kingdom of Mysore during the reigns of Tipu Sultan (r. 1782-1799) and Krishnaraja Wodeyar III (r. 1799-1868). Tipu Sultan was a Muslim king famous for resisting British dominance until his death; Krishnaraja III was a Hindu king who succumbed to British political and administrative control. Despite their differences, the courts of both kings dealt with the changing political landscape by turning to the religious and mythical past to construct a royal identity for their kings. Caleb Simmons explores the ways in which these two kings and their courts modified and adapted pre-modern Indian notions of sovereignty and kingship in reaction to British intervention. -- Provided by publisher, page 2 of book jacket. [Chadwell Heath, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2020]
ISBN10: 0190088893, ISBN13: 9780190088897, [publisher: Oxford University Press] Hardcover Book is in NEW condition. 1.33 [Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2020]
ISBN10: 0190088893, ISBN13: 9780190088897, [publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. Devotional Sovereignty: Kingship and Religion in India investigates the shifting conceptualization of sovereignty in the South Indian kingdom of Mysore during the reigns of Tipu Sultan (r. 1782-1799) and Krishnaraja Wodeyar III (r. 1799-1868). Tipu Sultan was a Muslim king famous for resisting British dominance until his death; Krishnaraja III was a Hindu king who succumbed to British political and administrative control. Despite their differences, thecourts of both kings dealt with the changing political landscape by turning to the religious and mythical past to construct a royal identity for their kings. Caleb Simmons explores the ways in which these twokings and their courts modified and adapted pre-modern Indian notions of sovereignty and kingship in reaction to British intervention. The religious past provided an idiom through which the Mysore courts could articulate their rulers' claims to kingship in the region, attributing their rule to divine election and employing religious vocabulary in a variety of courtly genres and media. Through critical inquiry into the transitional early colonial period, this study sheds new light onpre-modern and modern India, with implications for our understanding of contemporary politics. It offers a revisionist history of the accepted narrative in which Tipu Sultan is viewed as a radicalMuslim reformer and Krish ...
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