Building the Empire, Building the Nation by Haines, Daniel;

Development, Legitimacy, and Hydro-Politics in Sind, 1919-1969

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Kiadó OUP Pakistan
Megjelenés dátuma 2013. október 10.

ISBN 9780199068487
Kötéstípus Keménykötés
Terjedelem250 oldal
Méret 228x149x23 mm
Súly 548 g
Nyelv angol
Illusztrációk 3 b/w photographs

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European empires disintegrated during the twentieth century, leaving newly-formed postcolonial states in their wake. In this turbulent period, governments sought new political idioms to support their claims to legitimacy as modern states. In Sindh, a part of British India and (later) of Pakistan, the late colonial and early post-colonial states combined major attempts to control the natural environment with a serious engagement with representative politics in their bid for legitimacy. The
construction of three barrage dams across the River Indus, along with a network of irrigation canals, enacted human control over nature as a political project; while the complicated relationship between bureaucracies and legislatures moved towards a democratic ideal after the First World War.

This book examines tensions between representative and developmental sources of state legitimacy. It argues that the democratic trend of constitutional changes during the middle of the century conflicted with the authoritarian economic imperatives of the barrage projects, which Sindh's rulers believed to be necessary for the projects' successful execution. The barrage projects were based on the concept, endorsed by British officials and their Pakistani successors, that material progress would
bring prosperity and happiness to Sindh. Both the colonial and post-colonial governments capitalized on the projects' rhetorical potential, creating a discourse in which the modern state's unique ability to mobilize scientific expertise in the public good justified its rule.

This book argues that the late colonial and early postcolonial states had a great deal in common. It demonstrates this contention by highlighting similarities between the actions and rhetoric of governments before and after Partition in building and managing the barrage projects. The changing relationships between rulers, politicians and rural magnates between the 1920s and 1960s were intertwined with the rising idea that the state was responsible for promoting material progress, as well as the
idea of extending political participation among Sindhis. Moreover, groups of Sindhi politicians appropriated discourses of science and development during the 1920s and 1930s, and used them to compete with the British-controlled state and with each other. This was the basis for the government's
enthusiasm for development projects such as new barrages in early Pakistan, and ensured that contemporary development's state-centric tendencies remained strong.

Based on archival material gathered in Pakistan, India, the UK and the USA, the book fills a gap in historical writing on modern Sindh, particularly after Partition; and contributes to scholarship on the modern state (particularly in the South Asian context). It engages, too, with the rising field of environmental history, and emphasizes the politics of the exploitation of the natural world. The book provides a counterpoint to the trend in South Asian historiography over the last twenty years
of focusing on identity politics and, more recently, the 'everyday state': instead, it asserts the continued importance of broader analysis of how modern states have engaged with large-scale infrastructural development in conjunction with constitutional change. It also explores, in a Pakistani
context, themes that writers on India have raised in relation to dams and development.

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Abbreviations
A Note on Spelling and Names
Map of Pakistan
Map of Sind's River and Barrages
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Development, Responsible Government, and the Sukkur Barrage: Sind between the World Wars
2. Strengthening the Late Colonial State
3. Nation-building and Engineering Expertise in Pakistani Sind
4. The Politics of Land after Independence
5. Pakistan-A Planning State?
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index