From subjects to citizens: society and the everyday state in India and Pakistan, 1947-1970

Contributor(s): Sherman, Taylor C [author,, editor of compilation.] | Gould, William, 1973- [author,, editor of compilation.] | Ansari, Sarah F. D [author,, editor of compilation.]Publication details: Delhi, India Cambridge University Press 2014Description: vi, 250 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781107064270Subject(s): 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 centuryDDC classification: 954.04 LOC classification: DS480.84 | .F77 2014
Contents:
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.
Summary: "Offers a fresh and timely perspective on the broader field of early postcolonial South Asian history"-- Provided by publisher.
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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"-- Provided by publisher.

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