Sovereignty, International Law, and the Princely States of Colonial South Asia - Priyasha Saksena

Sovereignty, International Law, and the Princely States of Colonial South Asia

Buch | Hardcover
272 Seiten
2023
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-286658-5 (ISBN)
109,95 inkl. MwSt
Sovereignty, International Law, and the Princely States of Colonial South Asia examines the role the doctrine of sovereignty played in debates over the legal status of the princely states of colonial South Asia, illustrating how different interpretations have shaped current understandings of international law and the modern Indian nation-state.
What constitutes a sovereign state in the international legal sphere? This question has been central to international law for centuries. Sovereignty, International Law, and the Princely States of Colonial South Asia provides a compelling exploration of the history of sovereignty through an analysis of the jurisdictional politics involving a specific set of historical legal entities.

Governed by local rulers, the princely states of colonial South Asia were subject to British paramountcy whilst remaining legally distinct from directly ruled British India. Their legal status and the extent of their rights remained the subject of feverish debates through the entirety of British colonial rule. This book traces the ways in which the language of sovereignty shaped the discourse surrounding the legal status of the princely states to illustrate how the doctrine of sovereignty came to structure political imagination in colonial South Asia and the framework of the modern Indian state.

Opening with a survey of the place of the princely states in the colonial structures of South Asia, Sovereignty, International Law, and the Princely States of Colonial South Asia goes on to illustrate how international lawyers, British politicians, colonial officials, rulers and bureaucrats of princely states, and anti-colonial nationalists in British India used definitions of sovereignty to construct political orders in line with their interests and aspirations. By invoking the vernacular of sovereignty in contrasting ways to support their differing visions of imperial and world order, these actors also attempted to reconfigure the boundaries among the spheres of the national, the imperial, and the international. Throughout the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries, debates and disputes over the princely states continually defined and redefined the concept of sovereignty and international legitimacy in South Asia.

Using rich material from the colonial archives,Sovereignty, International Law, and the Princely States of Colonial South Asia conveys an understanding of the history of sovereignty and the construction of the modern Indian nation-state that is still relevant today. A riveting read, this book will be of considerable interest and importance to scholars of international law and South Asia, legal historians, and political scientists.

Priyasha Saksena is a lecturer at the School of Law, University of Leeds, UK. Her research focuses on the historical development of legal concepts and institutions within the British empire and their contemporary effects. She is particularly interested in exploring how legal doctrines such as sovereignty have shaped the relationship between international law and colonialism.

1: Introduction
2: Setting the Stage: The Legal Construction of British Paramountcy
3: Jousting Over Jurisdiction: Sovereignty Debates in the Aftermath of the 1857 Rebellion
4: The Controversy Over Divisible Sovereignty: The Princes and the Indian States Committee
5: Political Negotiations: The Princes in the Federation Debates
6: Building the Nation: The Princely States in the Age of Decolonization
7: Epilogue

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie The History and Theory of International Law
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 164 x 240 mm
Gewicht 534 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte
Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Öffentliches Recht Völkerrecht
ISBN-10 0-19-286658-3 / 0192866583
ISBN-13 978-0-19-286658-5 / 9780192866585
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