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020			_a9780190088897 _qhbk.
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041			_aeng
100			_aSimmons, Caleb, _91641011 _eauthor
245			_aDevotional sovereignty : _bkingship and religion in India / _cCaleb Simmons.
260			_aNew Delhi : _bOxford University Press, _c2020.
490	1		_aReligion culture and history
520			_a"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."--
600			_aTipu Sultan, Fath ʻAli, Nawab of Mysore, _y1753-1799 _91641709
600			_aKrsnaraja Vaḍeyara III, Maharaja of Mysore, _yactive 1799-1868 _91641710
650			_aIndia--Mysore _bKings and rulers _91641711
650			_aSovereignty--Religious aspects _9752136
830			_aReligion culture and history _91641712
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