Rajbir Singh Judge is an assistant professor of history at California State University, Long Beach.
Prophetic Maharaja is a remarkable book. In its treatment of a late nineteenth-century moment in the history of Sikh claims for sovereignty in the Punjab, it refuses conventional historical approaches that fix the identities of colonizers and colonized, instead insisting that things like community, religion, politics, and the boundaries between them are always sites of contest and negotiation. In detailing those conflicted processes as they cohere and destabilize political relationships, Rajbir Judge offers a model of how theorized history can be compellingly and intelligently written. -- Joan W. Scott, author of <i>On the Judgment of History</i>