Production of Postcolonial India and Pakistan - Couverture souple

Svensson, Ted

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1138692921 ISBN 13 : 9781138692923

Editeur : Routledge, 2016

Synopsis

This work seeks to examine the event and concurrent transition that the inauguration of India and Pakistan as 'postcolonial' states in August 1947 constituted and effectuated.

Analysing India and Pakistan together in a parallel and mutually dependant reading, and utilizing primary data and archival materials, Svensson offers new insights into the current literature, seeking to conceptualise independence through partition and decolonisation in terms of novelty and as a 'restarting of time'.

Through his analysis, Svensson demonstrates the constitutive and inexorable entwinement of contingency and restoration, of openness and closure, in the establishment of the postcolonial state. It is maintained that those involved in instituting the new state in a moment devoid of fixity and foundation 'anchor' it in preceding beginnings. The work concludes with the proposition that the novelty should not only be regarded as contained in the moment of transition. It should also be seen as contained in the pledge, in the promise and the gesturing towards a future community.

Distinct from most other studies on the partition and independence the book assumes the constitutive moment as the focal point, offering a new approach to the study of partition in British India, decolonisation and the institutional of the postcolonial state. This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of international relations, South Asian studies and political and postcolonial theory.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ted Svensson is Lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden. He holds a PhD from the University of Warwick, United Kingdom. He has published articles in Global Society, Alternatives and Critical Studies on Terrorism, and he recently contributed with a chapter in the edited volume Comparative Regional Security Governance (London: Routledge, 2012). He was awarded the Political Studies Association's Lord Bryce Prize for best dissertation in International Relations and/or Comparative Politics in 2011.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2016
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1138692921
• ISBN 13: 9781138692923
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 216
• Coordonnées du fabricant: BOOKS etc..; cs@booksetc.co.uk; ; BOOKS etc.; Aldershot; Royaume-Uni
• Personne responsable: non disponible