Authors: Ian Talbot
ISBN-13: 9780340706336, ISBN-10: 0340706333
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA
Date Published: July 2000
Edition: 1st Edition
Ian Talbot is Reader in South Asian Studies and Director for the Centre for South Asian Studies at Coventry University.
'Nationalist' writers and politicians have been apt to take the 'nation' as a given entity, perhaps even a providential one. A more recent trend in historical writing, however, has been to emphasize the extent to which 'nations' are made, not born. The histories in this new series take as this as their organizing principle, whether the forging of the 'nation' was a matter of conscious manipulation by an elite or guided by more popular imperatives, or a combination of the two. Each volume describes how and when particular modern nations came into existence, while at the same time demonstrating that the process is both complex and deeply contingent.
This first volume in the series looks at a region that is all too often viewed through the prism of European experience. Ian Talbot provides a wide-ranging study of nationalism in a non-European context, showing how the 'invention' of modern India and Pakistan drew heavily for inspiration on indigenous values. Analyzing both the effects of colonial rule and the post-colonial aftermath, the book is a readable and up-to-date introduction to the major issues in the contemporary history of the sub-continent.
List of maps | ||
General Editor's preface | ||
Preface | ||
Glossary | ||
List of abbreviations | ||
Chronology of events | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | Community, nation and the British Raj | 9 |
2 | Indian ideas and new senses of community | 32 |
3 | Spreading the word: communicating new senses of identity | 60 |
4 | Anjumans, associations and sabhas: the institutionalisation of new senses of community | 86 |
5 | The politicisation of community identities | 111 |
6 | Nationalism, communal, and ethnic identities and the partition of India | 134 |
7 | Nation building in India: ideas and institutions | 162 |
8 | Nation building in Pakistan: ideas and institutions | 196 |
9 | Globalisation and the nation state in the subcontinent | 223 |
10 | Ethno-nationalism, insurgency and secessionism in India and Pakistan | 252 |
Conclusion | 283 | |
Appendix | 287 | |
Bibliography | 290 | |
Index | 307 |