Religious authority and political power have existed in complex relationships throughout India's history. The centuries of the 'early modern' in South Asia saw particularly dynamic developments in this relationship. Regional as well as imperial states of the period expanded thei…
Partition?s Legacies offers a selection of Joya Chatterji?s finest and most influential essays. ?Partition, nation-making, frontiers, refugees, minority formation, and categories of citizenship have been my preoccupations,? she writes in the preface, and these are also the major…