From subjects to citizens: society and the everyday state in India and Pakistan, 1947-1970
- Delhi, India Cambridge University Press 2014
- vi, 250 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Personal law and citizenship in India's transition to independence / Eleanor Newbigin -- From subjects to citizens? : rationing, refugees and the publicity of corruption over independence in UP / William Gould -- Performing peace : Gandhi's assassination as a critical moment in the consolidation of the Nehruvian state / Yasmin Khan -- Migration, citizenship and belonging in Hyderabad (Deccan), 1946-1956 / Taylor C. Sherman -- Punjabi refugees' rehabilitation and the Indian state : discourses, denials and dissonances / Ian Talbot -- Sovereignty, governmentality and development in Ayub's Pakistan : the case of Korangi Township / Markus Daechsel -- Everyday expectations of the state during Pakistan's early years : letters to the editor, Dawn (Karachi), 1950-1953 / Sarah Ansari -- Concrete 'progress' : irrigation, development and modernity in mid-twentieth century Sind / Daniel Haines -- Partition narratives : displaced trauma and culpability among British civil servants in 1940s Punjab / Catherine Coombs.
"Offers a fresh and timely perspective on the broader field of early postcolonial South Asian history"--
9781107064270
2013040360
Postcolonialism--India.
Postcolonialism--Pakistan.
Public administration--India.
Public administration--Pakistan.
Political culture--India.
Political culture--Pakistan.
India--Politics and government--1947
Pakistan--Politics and government--20th century.
DS480.84 / .F77 2014
954.04 / Sh56
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Personal law and citizenship in India's transition to independence / Eleanor Newbigin -- From subjects to citizens? : rationing, refugees and the publicity of corruption over independence in UP / William Gould -- Performing peace : Gandhi's assassination as a critical moment in the consolidation of the Nehruvian state / Yasmin Khan -- Migration, citizenship and belonging in Hyderabad (Deccan), 1946-1956 / Taylor C. Sherman -- Punjabi refugees' rehabilitation and the Indian state : discourses, denials and dissonances / Ian Talbot -- Sovereignty, governmentality and development in Ayub's Pakistan : the case of Korangi Township / Markus Daechsel -- Everyday expectations of the state during Pakistan's early years : letters to the editor, Dawn (Karachi), 1950-1953 / Sarah Ansari -- Concrete 'progress' : irrigation, development and modernity in mid-twentieth century Sind / Daniel Haines -- Partition narratives : displaced trauma and culpability among British civil servants in 1940s Punjab / Catherine Coombs.
"Offers a fresh and timely perspective on the broader field of early postcolonial South Asian history"--
9781107064270
2013040360
Postcolonialism--India.
Postcolonialism--Pakistan.
Public administration--India.
Public administration--Pakistan.
Political culture--India.
Political culture--Pakistan.
India--Politics and government--1947
Pakistan--Politics and government--20th century.
DS480.84 / .F77 2014
954.04 / Sh56