The Postcolonial Moment in South and Southeast Asia
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The Postcolonial Moment in South and Southeast Asia

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The Postcolonial Moment in South and Southeast Asia

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By exploring themes of fragility, mobility and turmoil, anxieties and agency, and pedagogy, this book shows how colonialism shaped postcolonial projects in South and Southeast Asia including India, Pakistan, Burma, and Indonesia. Its chapters unearth the contingency and contention that accompanied the establishment of nation-states and their claim to be decolonized heirs. The book places key postcolonial moments - a struggle for citizenship, anxious constitution making, mass education and land reform - against the aftermath of the Second World War and within a global framework, relating them to the global transformation in political geography from empire to nation. The chapters analyse how futures and ideals envisioned by anticolonial activists were made reality, whilst others were discarded. Drawing on the expertise of eminent contributors, The Postcolonial Moment in South and Southeast Asia represents the most ground-breaking research on the region.

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Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2018
ISBN
9781350038646
Edition
1
Topic
History
Subtopic
Indian & South Asian History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Illustrations
  7. Notes on Contributors
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. Introduction: The Postcolonial Moment
  10. 1. “False Truth”: Disillusionment and Hope in the Decade after Independence
  11. 2. The Enemy Within: Communism and the New Pakistani State
  12. 3. Contested Meanings of Postcolonialism and Independence in Burma
  13. 4. The Marginal State: Practicing Islamic Statehood in Independent Indonesia
  14. 5. Evacuee Property and the Management of Economic Life in Postcolonial India
  15. 6. Struggles for Citizenship around the Bay of Bengal
  16. 7. The Postwar “Returnee,” Tamil Culture, and the Bay of Bengal
  17. 8. Anxious Constitution-Making
  18. 9. Making Universal Franchise and Democratic Citizenship in the Postcolonial Moment
  19. 10. Toward Mass Education or an “Aristocracy of Talents”: Nonalignment and the Making of a Strong India
  20. 11. “The World Has Changed”: Development, Land Reform, and the Ethical Work of India’s Independence
  21. 12. “Help the Plan—Help Yourself”: Making Indians Plan-Conscious
  22. 13. The Past and Future of the Muslim Postcolonial Moment: Islamic Economy and Social Justice in South Asia
  23. 14. Straight from Mecca: Medan, Hamka, and the Coming of Islam to Indonesia
  24. Index