The Mortal God: Imagining the Sovereign in Colonial India by Milinda Banerjee
The Mortal God: Imagining the Sovereign in Colonial India

Milinda Banerjee

The Mortal God: Imagining the Sovereign in Colonial India

Milinda Banerjee

450 pages first pub 2018 (editions)

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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 politic...

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