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Production of Postcolonial India and Pakistan - Meanings of Partition (Paperback)
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Production of Postcolonial India and Pakistan - Meanings of Partition (Paperback)
Series: Interventions
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This work seeks to examine the event and concurrent transition that
the inauguration of India and Pakistan as 'postcolonial' states in
August 1947 constituted and effectuated. Analysing India and
Pakistan together in a parallel and mutually dependant reading, and
utilizing primary data and archival materials, Svensson offers new
insights into the current literature, seeking to conceptualise
independence through partition and decolonisation in terms of
novelty and as a 'restarting of time'. Through his analysis,
Svensson demonstrates the constitutive and inexorable entwinement
of contingency and restoration, of openness and closure, in the
establishment of the postcolonial state. It is maintained that
those involved in instituting the new state in a moment devoid of
fixity and foundation 'anchor' it in preceding beginnings. The work
concludes with the proposition that the novelty should not only be
regarded as contained in the moment of transition. It should also
be seen as contained in the pledge, in the promise and the
gesturing towards a future community. Distinct from most other
studies on the partition and independence the book assumes the
constitutive moment as the focal point, offering a new approach to
the study of partition in British India, decolonisation and the
institutional of the postcolonial state. This work will be of great
interest to students and scholars of international relations, South
Asian studies and political and postcolonial theory.
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