The Sovereign Lives of India and Pakistan
Post-Partition Statehood in South Asia
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP India
- Date of Publication 13 December 2021
- Number of Volumes Hardback
- ISBN 9780190130879
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages280 pages
- Size 222x145x20 mm
- Weight 392 g
- Language English 170
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Short 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.
MoreLong description:
This book 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. The 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 on the subcontinent. It concludes by pointing to the contemporary relevance of alternative ideas of sovereignty and political community for South Asia that were articulated during the first half of the 20th century.
An excellent book on an important and topical subject. Atul Mishra incisively reveals how, and why, the assertion of sovereignty has become an end in itself for the post-colonial states of India and Pakistan. The Sovereign Lives of India and Pakistan lays bare the destructive effects of rigid conceptions of sovereignty, rooted in anxiety, on the two countries and on the relationship between them.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
1. From Politicization to Internationalization: The Pursuit of Sovereignty in Late Colonial South Asia
2. The Burden of Diversity: National Identity and Sovereign Statehood
3. Sovereigns and Others: The Minorities
4. Kashmir: The Dynamics of Territorialization and Fragmentation
Epilogue: Beyond Internationalization
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