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Devotional Sovereignty - Kingship and Religion in India (Hardcover)
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Devotional Sovereignty - Kingship and Religion in India (Hardcover)
Series: AAR Religion Culture and History
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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. 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 on pre-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 radical
Muslim reformer and Krishnaraja III as a powerless British puppet.
Simmons paints a picture of both rulers in which they work within
and from the same understanding of kingship, utilizing devotion to
Hindu gods, goddesses, and gurus to perform the duties of the king.
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