Patchwork States argues that the subnational politics of conflict
and competition in South Asian countries have roots in the history
of uneven state formation under colonial rule. Colonial India
contained a complex landscape of different governance arrangements
and state-society relations. After independence, postcolonial
governments revised colonial governance institutions, but only with
partial success. The book argues that contemporary India and
Pakistan can be usefully understood as patchwork states, with
enduring differences in state capacity and state-society relations
within their national territories. The complex nature of
territorial governance in these countries shapes patterns of
political violence, including riots and rebellions, as well as
variations in electoral competition and development across the
political geography of the Indian subcontinent. By bridging past
and present, this book can transform our understanding of both the
legacies of colonial rule and the historical roots of violent
politics, in South Asia and beyond.
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