Distant sovereignty brings together discussions of british imperial and indian colonial histories in ways that have not been attempted before sen demonstrates powerfully and with remarkable historical imagination that the colonizer and the colonized had conjoined and not separate histories. Distant sovereignty brings together discussions of british imperial and indian colonial histories in ways that have not been attempted before sen demonstrates powerfully and with remarkable historical imagination that the colonizer and the colonized had conjoined and not separate histories. In this broad study of british rule in india during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries sudipta sen takes up this dual agenda sketching out the interrelationships between nationalism imperialism and identity formation as they played out in both england and south asia. A distant sovereignty national imperialism and the origins of british india sudipta sen limited preview 2016 distant sovereignty national imperialism and the origins of british india. A distant sovereignty national imperialism and the origins of british india amazonin sen sudipta books