From the Colonial to the Postcolonial India and Pakistan in Transition

by Chakrabarty, Dipesh; Majumdar, Rochona; Sartori, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780195679564
• ISBN10: 0195679563
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-04-19
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This volume addresses some of the key issues marking the process ofdecolonization in India and Pakistan. It looks at decolonization as a long-termprocess and highlights some of the historical complications involved in nationsborn under the aegis of the colonial rule evolving into postcolonial polities.The contributors include a range of distinguished scholars from North America,the United Kingdom, South Asia, and Australia. They approach the issue ofdecolonization in different but mutually reinforcing ways, throughconstitutionalism, sports, housing, genders, minority issues, regionalism, andclass formation.

Author Biography

Dipesh Chakrabarty is Lawrence A. Kimton Distinguished Service Professor of History and South Asian Languages, University of Chicago. Rochona Majumdar is Assistant Professor of South Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago. Andrew Sartori is Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Social Sciences, University of Chicago.

Table of Contents

Dedication

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introduction

From the Colonial to the Postcolonial: India and Pakistan in Transition

Questions of Democracy

Indian Constitutionalism: The Articulation of a Political Vision

"In the Name of Politics": Democracy and the Power of the Multitude in India

Election Law and the "People" in Colonial land Postcolonial India

Minority Imaginings

The Minority as Political Form

Observant Muslims, Secular Indians: The Political Vision of Manulana Husain Ahmad Madani, 1938-1957

Abul Mansur Ahmad and the Cultural Politics of Bengali Pakistanism

Ambedkar and the Politics of Minority: A Reading

Caste, Class, and Nation

Cricket in India: Representative Playing Field to Restrictive Preserve

"South Indians are Like that Only": Communal Identity in Late Colonial Bombay

Muslim League and Peasant Rebellions in East Pakistan

Law, Capital and Subject Formation

Family Values in Transition: Debates around the Hindu Code Bill

Capitalist Subjects in Transition

Regions

"Aryavarta", "Hind", or "Uttar Pradesh": The Postcolonial Naming and Framing of a "Religion"

The Imprint of the Past: Reflections on Regime Change with Particular Reference to "Middle India", c .1947-1950

Wider Perspectives

Diaspora and Swaraj, Swaraj and Diaspora

Towards a History of the Present: Southern Perspectives on the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Index

List of Contributors

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