Deconstructing India-Pakistan relations : postcolonial ontology and the problematique of state security in South Asia / Sanjeev Kumar H.M.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

H. M., Sanjeev Kumar, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Routledge advances in South Asian studies ; 12.

Routledge advances in South Asian studies ; 12

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pakistan--Foreign relations--India.

Pakistan.

India--Foreign relations--Pakistan.

India.

Pakistan--Foreign relations.

India--Foreign relations--1947-1984.

India--Foreign relations--1984-.

National security--South Asia.

National security.

Physical Description:

ix, 220 pages ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

Postcolonial ontology and the problematique of state security in South Asia

Place of Publication:

[S.l.] : ROUTLEDGE, 2023.

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2024.

Summary:

"This book examines the complex dynamics of India Pakistan relations, by situating the same in the post-colonial setting of the subcontinent. In pursuit of this, the book analyses the impact of the linkages between the postcolonial processes of state-making and the structuring of political communities, upon the evolution of the problématique of state security in South Asia. For the purpose of undertaking this task, the author deconstructs the countries' colonial history, with an aim to map its impact on the making of the foreign policy of Pakistan. Drawing primarily from colonial discourse theory and historical sociology, the book links the trajectory of Pakistan's international politics, to its domestic politics and 'weak state' inheritances. By doing this, it offers a stimulating treatment of the history of the country's troubled post-colonial relations with India. This has been done in the book, by presenting the modes by which the religio-military and politico-bureaucratic classes that constitute the power elite in Pakistan, tended to have molded an India-centered State security problématique. This book will be of interest to researchers studying South Asian security, India-Pakistan relations and the defence and foreign policy of Pakistan"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Postcolonial Predicament and the Problématique of State Security in South Asia

Westphalia and Its Discontents

Pakistan's Tryst with Postcolonial History and the Ontology of its State Behaviour

The 1947 Cataclysm and the Making of Pakistan's India-Centred Problematique of State Security

Constructing the Threat of a Hindu India.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: H. M., Sanjeev Kumar Deconstructing India-Pakistan relations

ISBN:

9781032572680

103257268X

9781032572659

1032572655

OCLC:

1394065169

Publisher Number:

99995848323