{"product_id":"production-of-postcolonial-india-and-ted-svensson-9781138692923","title":"Production of Postcolonial India and Pakistan: Meanings of Partition","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis work seeks to examine the event and concurrent transition that the inauguration of India and Pakistan as 'postcolonial' states in August 1947 constituted and effectuated.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnalysing India and Pakistan together in a parallel and mutually dependant reading, and utilizing primary data and archival materials, Svensson offers new insights into the current literature, seeking to conceptualise independence through partition and decolonisation in terms of novelty and as a 'restarting of time'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough his analysis, Svensson demonstrates the constitutive and inexorable entwinement of contingency and restoration, of openness and closure, in the establishment of the postcolonial state. It is maintained that those involved in instituting the new state in a moment devoid of fixity and foundation 'anchor' it in preceding beginnings. The work concludes with the proposition that the novelty should not only be regarded as contained in the moment of transition. It should also be seen as contained in the pledge, in the promise and the gesturing towards a future community. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDistinct from most other studies on the partition and independence the book assumes the constitutive moment as the focal point, offering a new approach to the study of partition in British India, decolonisation and the institutional of the postcolonial state. This work will be of great interest to students and scholars of international relations, South Asian studies and political and postcolonial theory. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ted Svensson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1138692921\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781138692923\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/21\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Ted Svensson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48438152626431,"sku":"9781138692923","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_382a8ba7-fd73-4147-902c-1ef7b8172090.jpg?v=1777169169","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/production-of-postcolonial-india-and-ted-svensson-9781138692923","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}