The Postcolonial Moment in South and Southeast Asia

By: Gyan Prakash (Editor), Nikhil Menon (Editor), Michael Laffan (Editor)

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Hardcover | 22 February 2018

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By exploring themes of fragility, mobility and turmoil, anxieties and agency, and pedagogy, The Postcolonial Moment in South and Southeast Asia shows how colonialism shaped postcolonial projects in South Asia including Burma, Indonesia and Pakistan. Through fascinating and original chapters, it unearths the contingency and contention that accompanied the establishment of nation-states and their claim to be postcolonial heirs.

Key postcolonial moments - a struggle for citizenship, anxious constitution making, mass education and land reform - are placed against the aftermath of the Second World War and discussed within a global framework, relating them to the global transformation in political geography from Empire to Nation. The chapters analyse how futures and ideals envisioned by anticolonial activists were made reality, whilst others were discarded. Drawing on the expertise of eminent contributors, this is an excellent compilation of ground-breaking research on postcolonial South and Southeast Asia.

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This large collection of excellent essays on decades of transition from empire to nation in southern Asia is particularly valuable today when retrograde nationalist demogogues feed so freely on crudely simplified stereotypes of national identity and historical experience. This wonderfully creative work should stimulate more serious scholarship exploring the questions left open here: did the "post-colonial moment" ever end?
David Ludden, Professor of History, New York University, USA

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