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.