From the colonial to the postcolonial: India and Pakistan in transition

About the Author

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.


Product Description

This volume addresses some of the key issues marking the process of decolonization in India and Pakistan. It looks at decolonization as a long-term process and highlights some of the historical complications involved in nations born under the aegis of the colonial rule evolving into
postcolonial polities. It concentrates on particular aspects of the social and political processes involved in the transition from the colonial order to postcolonial regimes. The contributors include a range of distinguished scholars from North America, the United Kingdom, South Asia, and Australia.
They approach the issue of decolonization in different but mutually reinforcing ways, through constitutionalism, sports, regionalisms, housing, gender, minority issues, mass-politics, and class formation, The contributors include Dipesh Chakrabarty, David Washbrook, Barbara Metcalf, Ian Copland,
Gynaesh Kudaisya, and Anumpama Rao.