RETHINKING SOVEREIGNTY: RELIGIOUS BOUNDARIES TRANSGRESSIONS IN SOUTH, SOUTHEAST ASIA AUSTRALASIA

We also want to thank the contributors for their patience – we believe that patience has produced an original contribution to the literature on the relation between culture, religion and state formation in South Asia, Southeast Asia and Australasia. Uniquely this collection situates Australia’s and New Zealand’s colonial encounter within the political and geographical orbit of the radically Benthamite nature of British imperial rule and its influences in South and Southeast Asia.