Sunil Purushotham
Biographic Data
| ID | 369145 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sunil Purushotham |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sunil |
| FAMILY NAME | Purushotham |
| SIGNATURE | PURUSHOTHAM S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fairfield University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 38 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Rama Sundari Mantena. Provincial Democracy: Political Imaginaries at the End of Empire in Twentieth-Century South India
A li R aza . Revolutionary Pasts: Communist Internationalism in Colonial India
Ali Raza’s Revolutionary Pasts makes valuable contributions to a burgeoning historiography of revolutionary movements in interwar Asia, which includes work such as Maia Ramnath’s Haj to Utopia: How the Ghadar Movement Chartered Global Radicalism and Attempted to Overthrow the British Empire (2011); Kama Maclean’s A Revolutionary History of Interwar India: Violence, Image, Voice and Text (2015); Chris Moffat’s India’s Revolutionary Inheritance: Po…
Sovereignty, Federation, and Constituent Power in Interwar India, ca. 1917–39
For nearly three decades prior to 1947 federation was the dominant and most plausible model for reforming Britain's Indian Empire. Federation offered a capacious framework for innovating upon the sovereign landscapes of empire, for imagining a wide array of nonnational futures, and for elaborating questions of rights and democracy. This essay examines official projects of federation in interwar India, efforts that culminated with the “Federation …
Federating the Raj: Hyderabad, sovereign kingship, and partition
This article explores the idea of federation in late-colonial India. Projects of federation sought to codify the uncodified and fragmented sovereign landscape of the British Raj. They were ambitious projects that raised crucial questions about sovereignty, kingship, territoriality, the potential of constitutional law in transforming the colonial state into a democratic one, and India's political future more broadly. In the years after 1919, feder…
World History in the Atomic Age: Past, Present and Future in the Political Thought of Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru was both a historian and a self-conscious agent of historical change. This essay explores his political thought by bringing these two perspectives together. I argue that his approaches to a number of issues, including the state project that has been his most significant legacy, shared a concern with linking together the past, present and future. My concern here is primarily with the post-1947 phase of Nehru's career, which was ma…
Internal Violence: The 'Police Action' in Hyderabad
Through an examination of the September 1948 event known as the 'Police Action,' this article argues that 'internal violence' was an important engine of state formation in India in the period following independence in 1947. The mid-century ruptures in the subcontinent were neither incidental to nor undermining of the nascent Indian nation-state project-they were constitutive events through which a new state and regime of sovereignty emerged. A di…
Beyond Naxalbari: A Comparative Analysis of Maoist Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Independent India
This paper demonstrates that there have been three distinct waves of Maoist insurgency in India since 1947. We construct an ideal typical model of Maoist insurgency that is used to compare the roles played by local populations, insurgents, and state counterinsurgency measures across space and time. This allows us to demonstrate that the commonly accepted narrative of Indian Maoist insurgency must be fundamentally rethought. The Naxalbari outbreak…
Federating the Raj: Hyderabad, sovereign kingship, and partition
This article explores the idea of federation in late-colonial India. Projects of federation sought to codify the uncodified and fragmented sovereign landscape of the British Raj. They were ambitious projects that raised crucial questions about sovereignty, kingship, territoriality, the potential of constitutional law in transforming the colonial state into a democratic one, and India's political future more broadly. In the years after 1919, feder…
Internal Violence: The 'Police Action' in Hyderabad
Through an examination of the September 1948 event known as the 'Police Action,' this article argues that 'internal violence' was an important engine of state formation in India in the period following independence in 1947. The mid-century ruptures in the subcontinent were neither incidental to nor undermining of the nascent Indian nation-state project-they were constitutive events through which a new state and regime of sovereignty emerged. A di…
Beyond Naxalbari: A Comparative Analysis of Maoist Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Independent India
This paper demonstrates that there have been three distinct waves of Maoist insurgency in India since 1947. We construct an ideal typical model of Maoist insurgency that is used to compare the roles played by local populations, insurgents, and state counterinsurgency measures across space and time. This allows us to demonstrate that the commonly accepted narrative of Indian Maoist insurgency must be fundamentally rethought. The Naxalbari outbreak…
World History in the Atomic Age: Past, Present and Future in the Political Thought of Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru was both a historian and a self-conscious agent of historical change. This essay explores his political thought by bringing these two perspectives together. I argue that his approaches to a number of issues, including the state project that has been his most significant legacy, shared a concern with linking together the past, present and future. My concern here is primarily with the post-1947 phase of Nehru's career, which was ma…
Sovereignty, Federation, and Constituent Power in Interwar India, ca. 1917–39
For nearly three decades prior to 1947 federation was the dominant and most plausible model for reforming Britain's Indian Empire. Federation offered a capacious framework for innovating upon the sovereign landscapes of empire, for imagining a wide array of nonnational futures, and for elaborating questions of rights and democracy. This essay examines official projects of federation in interwar India, efforts that culminated with the “Federation …
Beyond Naxalbari: A Comparative Analysis of Maoist Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Independent India
This paper demonstrates that there have been three distinct waves of Maoist insurgency in India since 1947. We construct an ideal typical model of Maoist insurgency that is used to compare the roles played by local populations, insurgents, and state counterinsurgency measures across space and time. This allows us to demonstrate that the commonly accepted narrative of Indian Maoist insurgency must be fundamentally rethought. The Naxalbari outbreak…
Internal Violence: The 'Police Action' in Hyderabad
Through an examination of the September 1948 event known as the 'Police Action,' this article argues that 'internal violence' was an important engine of state formation in India in the period following independence in 1947. The mid-century ruptures in the subcontinent were neither incidental to nor undermining of the nascent Indian nation-state project-they were constitutive events through which a new state and regime of sovereignty emerged. A di…
World History in the Atomic Age: Past, Present and Future in the Political Thought of Jawaharlal Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru was both a historian and a self-conscious agent of historical change. This essay explores his political thought by bringing these two perspectives together. I argue that his approaches to a number of issues, including the state project that has been his most significant legacy, shared a concern with linking together the past, present and future. My concern here is primarily with the post-1947 phase of Nehru's career, which was ma…
Sovereignty, Federation, and Constituent Power in Interwar India, ca. 1917–39
For nearly three decades prior to 1947 federation was the dominant and most plausible model for reforming Britain's Indian Empire. Federation offered a capacious framework for innovating upon the sovereign landscapes of empire, for imagining a wide array of nonnational futures, and for elaborating questions of rights and democracy. This essay examines official projects of federation in interwar India, efforts that culminated with the “Federation …
Federating the Raj: Hyderabad, sovereign kingship, and partition
This article explores the idea of federation in late-colonial India. Projects of federation sought to codify the uncodified and fragmented sovereign landscape of the British Raj. They were ambitious projects that raised crucial questions about sovereignty, kingship, territoriality, the potential of constitutional law in transforming the colonial state into a democratic one, and India's political future more broadly. In the years after 1919, feder…
A li R aza . Revolutionary Pasts: Communist Internationalism in Colonial India
Ali Raza’s Revolutionary Pasts makes valuable contributions to a burgeoning historiography of revolutionary movements in interwar Asia, which includes work such as Maia Ramnath’s Haj to Utopia: How the Ghadar Movement Chartered Global Radicalism and Attempted to Overthrow the British Empire (2011); Kama Maclean’s A Revolutionary History of Interwar India: Violence, Image, Voice and Text (2015); Chris Moffat’s India’s Revolutionary Inheritance: Po…
Rama Sundari Mantena. Provincial Democracy: Political Imaginaries at the End of Empire in Twentieth-Century South India
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