sovereignty

This dissertation examines the relationship between neo-liberal restructuring, political transition, and the reorganization of urban space in Palestine/Israel and South Africa over the last 20 years. My research combines comparative historical, ethnographic, and visual methodolo…

This dissertation examines the effects of external intervention on state formation in the global periphery, particularly the establishment of sovereign statehood. I posit that the institutions of governance and political authority that define the organisational form of a polity …

In the early fifteenth century, a great debate took place at the Council of Constance (1414-1418) over the morality, legality and propriety of crusades against non-Christians. This debate was not merely theoretical or abstract for it was the intellectual theater in a multi-theat…

This dissertation focuses on the institution of sacred kingship in the Timurid, Safavid, and Mughal empires of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It examines how a particular style of sovereignty came to be practiced by Muslim dynasts in early modern India and Iran. This was…

This dissertation traces the role of first-person narratives in the writing of Mughal history. Beginning with the autobiographical writing of Babur (b. 1526), the first Mughal emperor, and concluding with the writing of Bhimsen Saxena (b. 1649), a news-writer employed by the Mug…