Deconstructing India-Pakistan Relations - State Security and Colonial History

This book examines the complex dynamics of India Pakistan relations, by situating the same in the post-colonial setting of the subcontinent. In pursuit of this, the book analyses the impact of the linkages between the postcolonial processes of state-making and the structuring of political communities, upon the evolution of the problématique of state security in South Asia. For the purpose of undertaking this task, the author deconstructs the countries' colonial history, with an aim to mapp its impact on the making of the foreign policy of Pakistan. Drawing primarily from colonial discourse theory and historical sociology, the book links the trajectory of Pakistan’s international politics, to its domestic politics and ‘weak state’ inheritances. By doing this, it offers a stimulating treatment of the history of the country’s troubled post-colonial relations with India. This has been done in the book, by presenting the modes by which the religio-military and politico-bureaucratic classes that constitute the power elite in Pakistan, tended to have molded an India-centered State security problématique. This book will be of interest to researchers studying South Asian security, India-Pakistan relations and the defence and foreign policy of Pakistan.

General

Imprint:	Taylor & Francis
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies
Release date:	November 2023
First published:	2024
Authors:	Sanjeev Kumar H. M.
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Pages:	256
ISBN-13:	978-1-03-257268-0
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	1-03-257268-X
Barcode:	9781032572680

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