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The postcolonial moment in South and Southeast Asia / edited by Gyan Prakash, Michael Laffan, and Nikhil Menon.

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Book
Contributor:
Prakash, Gyan, 1952- editor.
Laffan, Michael Francis, 1969- editor.
Menon, Nikhil, editor.
ProQuest ebook central.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Decolonization--South Asia.
Decolonization.
Decolonization--Southeast Asia.
Postcolonialism--South Asia.
Postcolonialism.
Postcolonialism--Southeast Asia.
Politics and government.
South Asia--Politics and government--20th century.
South Asia.
Southeast Asia--Politics and government--20th century.
Southeast Asia.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (x, 297 pages.)
Place of Publication:
London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.
[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2018]
System Details:
text file
Contents:
"False truth": disillusionment and hope in the decade after independence / Rotem Geva
The enemy within: communism and the new Pakistani State / Kamran Asdar Ali
Contested meanings of post-colonialism and independence in Burma / Mandy Sadan
The marginal state: practicing Islamic statehood in independent Indonesia / Chiara Formichi
Evacuee property and the management of economic life in postcolonial India / Rohit De
Struggles for citizenship around the Bay of Bengal / Sunil Amrith
The postwar returnee: Tamil culture, and the Bay of Bengal / Bhavani Raman
Anxious constitution-making / Gyan Prakash
Making universal franchise and democratic citizenship in the postcolonial moment / Ornit Shani
Towards mass education or an "aristocracy of talents": non-alignment and the making of a strong India / Neeti Nair
"The world has changed": development, land reform, and the ethical work of India's independence / Benjamin Siegel
"Help the plan, help yourself": making Indian plan-conscious / Nikhil Menon
The past, and future, of the Muslim post-colonial moment: Islamic economy and social justice in South Asia / Julia Stephens
Straight from Mecca: Medan, Hamka, and the coming of Islam to Indonesia / Michael Laffan.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
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Online version: Postcolonial moment in South and Southeast Asia
ISBN:
9781350038646
1350038644
Publisher Number:
99985889760
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