Download or read book Subalterns and Sovereigns written by Nandini Sundar and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging dominant theories of kingship, this book explores the transformation of the polity under indirect rule as well as in independent India. It documents the growing restrictions on popular access to land and forest and the multiple historical understandings that shaped the encounter between different actors.