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The postcolonial moment in South and Southeast Asia / edited by Gyan Prakash, Michael Laffan, and Nikhil Menon.
- Format:
- Book
- 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.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Postcolonial moment in South and Southeast Asia
- ISBN:
- 9781350038646
- 1350038644
- Publisher Number:
- 99985889760
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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