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The Postcolonial Moment in South and Southeast Asia

By Gyan Prakash (Editor), Nikhil Menon (Editor), Michael Laffan (Editor)
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By Gyan Prakash (Editor), Nikhil Menon (Editor), Michael Laffan (Editor)
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By exploring themes of fragility, mobility and turmoil, anxieties and agency, and pedagogy, this book shows how colonialism shaped postcolonial projects in South and Southeast Asia including India, Pakistan, Burma, and Indonesia. Its chapters unearth the contingency and contention that accompanied the establishment of nation-states and their claim to be decolonized heirs.

The book places key postcolonial moments - a struggle for citizenship, anxious constitution making, mass education and l...

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