The Sovereign Lives of India and Pakistan
Post-Partition Statehood in South Asia
Price: 1495.00 INR
ISBN:
9780190130879
Publication date:
10/10/2021
Hardback
300 pages
Price: 1495.00 INR
ISBN:
9780190130879
Publication date:
10/10/2021
Hardback
300 pages
Atul Mishra
The Sovereign Lives explores what it has meant for India and Pakistan to act as sovereign states entangled at birth by an unsatisfactory partition
Rights: World Rights
Atul Mishra
Description
The Sovereign Lives 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. This 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 in the subcontinent. It concludes by pointing to the contemporary relevance of alternative ideas of sovereignty and political community in South Asia that were articulated during the first half of the 20th century
About the Author:
Atul Mishra is Associate Professor, Department of International Relations and Governance Studies, Shiv Nadar University
Atul Mishra
Table of contents
Introduction
Chapter One
From Politicization to Internationalization:
The Pursuit of Sovereignty in Late Colonial South Asia
Chapter Two
The Burden of Diversity:
National Identity and Sovereign Statehood
Chapter Three
Sovereigns and Others: The Minorities
Chapter Four
Kashmir: The Dynamics of Territorialization and Fragmentation
Epilogue
Beyond Internationalization
References
Contributors
Atul Mishra
Atul Mishra
Description
The Sovereign Lives 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. This 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 in the subcontinent. It concludes by pointing to the contemporary relevance of alternative ideas of sovereignty and political community in South Asia that were articulated during the first half of the 20th century
About the Author:
Atul Mishra is Associate Professor, Department of International Relations and Governance Studies, Shiv Nadar University
Read MoreTable of contents
Introduction
Chapter One
From Politicization to Internationalization:
The Pursuit of Sovereignty in Late Colonial South Asia
Chapter Two
The Burden of Diversity:
National Identity and Sovereign Statehood
Chapter Three
Sovereigns and Others: The Minorities
Chapter Four
Kashmir: The Dynamics of Territorialization and Fragmentation
Epilogue
Beyond Internationalization
References
Contributors
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