The Sovereign Lives of India and Pakistan: Post-Partition Statehood in South Asia - Couverture rigide

Mishra, Atul

 
9780190130879: The Sovereign Lives of India and Pakistan: Post-Partition Statehood in South Asia
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0190130873 ISBN 13 : 9780190130879
Editeur : OUP India, 2021

Synopsis

This book explores what it has meant for India and Pakistan to act as sovereign states entangled at birth by an unsatisfactory partition. Sovereignty is conventionally understood as a means to achieve the goals that states set for themselves. The book argues that for India and Pakistan, sovereignty has become an end in itself, and that its pursuit has aided majoritarianism, insecurity, and mutual estrangement.

The book examines the trajectory of three problems that the partition of 1947 bequeathed to the two states. It investigates the state-minority relations, national identity debates, and contestation over Kashmir to outline the parallel processes of minoritization, homogenization, and territorialization. It shows how these processes signify the two states' quest for sovereignty. The scholarship on India and Pakistan often privileges their bilateral relations. In contrast, this book carries out the deeper task of a single-frame analysis and critique of their intertwined statehoods.

Ultimately, the book shows the inadequacy of the nation state form as the basis for political community on the subcontinent. It concludes by pointing to the contemporary relevance of alternative ideas of sovereignty and political community for South Asia that were articulated during the first half of the 20th century.

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À propos de l?auteur

Atul Mishra is an associate professor at the Department of International Relations and Governance Studies, Shiv Nadar University, India.

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Éditeur
OUP India
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0190130873
ISBN 13 
9780190130879
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
280
Coordonnées du fabricant
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