Book review: Atul Mishra, The Sovereign Lives of India and Pakistan: Post-partition Statehood in South Asia Posted on 6 December 2023 by Robert Mizo Studies in Indian Politics, Volume 11, Issue 2, Page 344-345, December 2023. Atul Mishra, The Sovereign Lives of India and Pakistan: Post-partition Statehood in South Asia. New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2021, 300 pp., ₹1,495.