From court to court

Religious polities and the modern south Asian public

Bibliographic Data

ID4299800
AuthorsBrian A Hatcher (0000-0003-2500-9012, Tufts University, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume14
Issue8
Publication date2020-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueReligion Compass (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1749-8171 • E-ISSN: 1749-8171
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/rec3.12367
OpenAlexW3034799297
LanguageEN
References cited50

Responding to recent scholarship on premodern religious publics in South Asia, this essay cautions against the retrojection of the modern category onto past political, religious, and cultural patterns. The essay highlights instead the need for examining historical developments taking place between the early colonial and the late colonial era as a useful way to ponder what becomes of court- and temple-based polities in the age of law courts, the printing press, and imperial bureaucracy

Bureaucracy · Colonialism · Political science · Politics · Publics · Scholarship · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Asian Studies and History · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · History · Law