Sovereignty over Time
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13043609 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Swati Birla (0000-0002-2808-7684, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 170-196 |
| Publication date | 2025-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | History of the Present (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2159-9785 • E-ISSN: 2159-9793 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/21599785-11857287 |
| OpenAlex | W4415677975 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 20 |
This essay examines the dismantling of native sovereignties to establish postcolonial sovereignty in South Asia, focusing on the 1948 military annexation of Hyderabad. It argues that forming postcolonial states involved both self-determination and the dismantling of other sovereignties. Sovereignty, both as a criterion and an object of cognition, entailed denying self-determination to contested polities and imposing new forms of alienation and subjection. The colonial/anti-colonial genealogy and postcolonial nation narratives foreclosed the politics of territory and obscured the historical nature of territory. By focusing on states that disappeared after 1945, the essay underscores the need to rethink the links between territory, sovereignty, and statehood in the politics of self-determination
Alienation · Annexation · Indigenous · Narrative · Object (grammar · Politics · Sovereignty · State (computer science · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies · South Asian Studies and Diaspora
Hyderabad, British India, and the World
Define and Rule
In the Name of the Nation
The Endgame of Globalization
Producing India
Refashioning Futures
The Origins of Indirect Rule in India
The Princely States, the Muslim League, and the Partition of India in 1947
An international anomaly? Sovereignty, the League of Nations and India's princely geographies
Sovereignty, Federation, and Constituent Power in Interwar India, ca. 1917–39
Imperialism, colonialism and sovereignty in the (post)colony
The Case of Hyderabad Before the Security Council
Nonsynchronism and the Obligation to Its Dialectics
Non-Sovereign Futures
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |