Deconstructing India-Pakistan Relations: State Security and Colonial History

This book examines the complex dynamics of India-Pakistan relations, by situating the same in the postcolonial 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 mapp it...