This book engages in a creative process of historical retrieval of visions for substantive democracy and federal union during the struggle for freedom that remained unrealized during the post-colonial transition.
This book engages in a creative process of historical retrieval of visions for substantive democracy and federal union during the struggle for freedom that remained unrealized during the post-colonial transition.
Sugata Bose is the Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs at Harvard University. His books include A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire (2006); His Majesty's Opponent: Subhas Chandra Bose and India's Struggle against Empire (2011); Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy with Ayesha Jalal (5th edition, Routledge, 2023); and Asia after Europe: Imagining A Continent in the Long Twentieth Century (2024). He was elected a Guggenheim Fellow in 1997. Ayesha Jalal is the Mary Richardson Professor of History at Tufts University. Her books include Self and Sovereignty: Individual and Community in South Asian Islam since 1850 (Routledge, 2000); Partisans of Allah: Jihad in South Asia (2008); Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy with Sugata Bose (5th edition, Routledge, 2023); and Muslim Enlightened Thought in South Asia (Routledge, 2025). She was elected a MacArthur "Genius" Fellow in 1998.
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Introduction Part I: Failure of Federation 1. A Rebel's Constitution: States of Exception and Anti-colonial Alternatives in the Making of the Indian Republic 2. The Limits of Progressive Politics: B.R. Ambedkar's Thoughts on Pakistan 3. Partitioned and Regionalized Visions in South Asian Diasporas: Indian and Pakistani Leagues of America in the Era of Decolonization Part II: Partition and its Aftermath 4. Imagining the Pakistan Economy: From Debating Economic Viability to Evaluating Economic Policy, 1940-1951 5. West Bengal and its Muslims: A Narrative of 'Long Minoritization' 6. Dialogue and Silence in Partition's Shadow: The Muslim Question in Asghar Wajahat's Fiction Part III: Nation, Authoritarianism and Federalism 7. The Indian Emergency (1975-1977) in Historical Perspective Limitations of the Settler-Colonial Framework 9. Terrors in the Night when All Cows are Black: Nomos, Authoritarianism and Federalism Conclusion
Introduction Part I: Failure of Federation 1. A Rebel's Constitution: States of Exception and Anti-colonial Alternatives in the Making of the Indian Republic 2. The Limits of Progressive Politics: B.R. Ambedkar's Thoughts on Pakistan 3. Partitioned and Regionalized Visions in South Asian Diasporas: Indian and Pakistani Leagues of America in the Era of Decolonization Part II: Partition and its Aftermath 4. Imagining the Pakistan Economy: From Debating Economic Viability to Evaluating Economic Policy, 1940-1951 5. West Bengal and its Muslims: A Narrative of 'Long Minoritization' 6. Dialogue and Silence in Partition's Shadow: The Muslim Question in Asghar Wajahat's Fiction Part III: Nation, Authoritarianism and Federalism 7. The Indian Emergency (1975-1977) in Historical Perspective Limitations of the Settler-Colonial Framework 9. Terrors in the Night when All Cows are Black: Nomos, Authoritarianism and Federalism Conclusion
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