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1 online resource (214 pages) |
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Interventions |
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Interventions
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| Contents |
Cover; Production of Postcolonial India and Pakistan; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 What (kind of) independence?; 1.1 Detecting the constitutive moment; 1.2 Independence through Partition; 1.3 Passive revolution or negation of negation?; 1.3.1 Break or continuity?; 1.3.2 Transition: not radical enough?; 2 Caught in the parallax? Partition scholarship and the unspeakable; 2.1 Memory, history, violence; 2.2 The fractured togetherness of citizenship; 2.3 The postcolonial state and its pursuit of oneness |
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2.4 Official truths and suppressed rumours3 Production of space: Identity, singularity and legitimacy; 3.1 Post in postcolonial; 3.2 Minorities and refugees: abjects and embodiments of the nation; 3.3 The force of utterance: bringing the discursive to life; 3.4 The space of time; 4 Writing the genre of the new: Constituting the nation, community and universal citizenship; 4.1 Name of the many, will of few; 4.2 Instituting nearby horizons; 4.3 To terminate a freedom movement; 4.4 Minorities, backward tracts and the totality of the people; 4.4.1 A proper site for 'minorities'? |
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4.4.2 Including the partially excluded5 Overwriting class: Backwardness and the mature citizen; 5.1 A right 'psychology for production': produce or perish; 5.2 'Down with the Nehru Government': the communist call for 'real' independence; 5.3 A partitioned revolution: 'popular' struggle from 'below'; 6 The impossible totality: Indian citizenship and the constitutive split; 6.1 The non-coincidence of the Self and (it)self; 6.2 Exclusive inclusion and its inverted double; 6.3 A double exile; 6.4 Two deaths of colonialism and the abyss of freedom; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
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 |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Postcolonialism -- India
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Postcolonialism -- Pakistan
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Postcolonialism
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| SUBJECT |
India -- History -- Partition, 1947.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh97003291
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| Subject |
India
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Pakistan
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781135022150 |
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1135022151 |
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1299767230 |
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9781299767232 |
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