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List of contents
Introduction
Part 1. Competing Political Theologies
1.Thinking the Question of Sovereignty in Early Colonial India
2. The Perils and Promise of Moral Reform
3. Reenergizing Sovereignty
4.Salvational Politics
5. Intercessory Wars
Part 2. Competing Normativities
6. Reforming Religion in the Shadow of Colonial Power.
7. Law, Sovereignty, and the Boundaries of Normative Practice
8. Forbidding Piety to Restore Sovereignty: The
Mawlid and its Discontents
9. Retaining Goodness: Reform as the Preservation of Original Forms
10. Knowing the Unknown: Contesting the Sovereign Gift of Knowledge
Part 3
11. Internal Disagreements
Epilogue
Postscript: Listening to the Internal 'other'
About the author
SherAli Tareen is associate professor of religious studies at Franklin and Marshall College. He is co-editor of
Imagining the Public in Modern South Asia.
Margrit Pernau is a senior researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and author of
Ashraf Into Middle Classes: Muslims in Nineteenth-Century Delhi.
