From subjects to citizens : society and the everyday state in India and Pakistan, 1947-1970 / edited by Taylor C. Sherman, William Gould, Sarah Ansari. - New York : Cambridge University Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (iv, 250 pages)

Includes bibliographies and index.

Personal law and citizenship in India's transition to independence / From subjects to citizens? : rationing, refugees and the publicity of corruption over independence in UP / Performing peace : Gandhi's assassination as a critical moment in the consolidation of the Nehruvian state / Migration, citizenship and belonging in Hyderabad (Deccan), 1946-1956 / Punjabi refugees' rehabilitation and the Indian state : discourses, denials and dissonances / Sovereignty, governmentality and development in Ayub's Pakistan : the case of Korangi Township / Everyday expectations of the state during Pakistan's early years : letters to the editor, Dawn (Karachi), 1950-1953 / Concrete 'progress' : irrigation, development and modernity in mid-twentieth century Sind / Partition narratives : displaced trauma and culpability among British civil servants in 1940s Punjab / Eleanor Newbigin -- William Gould -- Yasmin Khan -- Taylor C. Sherman -- Ian Talbot -- Markus Daechsel -- Sarah Ansari -- Daniel Haines -- Catherine Coombs.

"Offers a fresh and timely perspective on the broader field of early postcolonial South Asian history"--



9781139923149 9781107585737


Postcolonialism--India.
Postcolonialism--Pakistan.
Public administration--India.
Public administration--Pakistan.
Political culture--India.
Political culture--Pakistan.


Electronic Books.

DS480 / .F766 2014