From subjects to citizens : society and the everyday state in India and Pakistan, 1947-1970 /
This book explores the shift from colonial rule to independence in India and Pakistan, with the aim of unravelling the explicit meaning and relevance of 'independence' for the new citizens of India and Pakistan during the two decades post 1947. While the study of postcolonial South Asia ha...
Saved in:
| Main Authors: | , , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2014.
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of 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.
