South Asia and Africa after independence post-colonialism in historical perspective /: post-colonialism in historical perspective. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Bernard Waites.
• Other Names: Waites, Bernard
• Contents: Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Tables; List of Maps; Abbreviations; Introduction: Post-colonialism in Historical Perspective; Post-colonialism as history; 'Postcolonialism' in theory; Postcolonial South Asia and Africa: a thumb-nail sketch; Modern colonialism; Post-colonialism; The post-colonial phase in outline; 1 Post-colonial Trajectories in South Asia; Introduction; The trauma of partition and the fragility of Pakistan; The Kashmir conflict; Constructing Pakistan's political economy of defence; The economics of partition; Institutional continuities and discontinuities: India. Telangana: aborted agrarian revolutionThe electoral bases of the Congress Raj; The Congress 'system' under Mrs Gandhi; Pakistan: the failure to establish democracy; Containing the Bengali autonomy movement: the dual crisis of 1954; Shutting down Pakistan's democracy; Congress and the linguistic reorganisation of the Indian states; The Ayub Khan regime: October 1958 to March 1969; The fall of the Ayub Khan regime; Things fall apart: the break-away of Bangladesh; Conclusions; Epilogue: the parallel elections of March 1977. 2 Democracy, Economic Planning and Economic Stagnation in India: 1947-c. 1975Introduction: economic planning and post-colonial consciousness; The origins and implementation of economic planning; Realising 'a socialistic picture of society; The crisis of 1965-6 and the planning hiatus; From radical turn to social crisis: 1969-74; The Emergency of 1975; The achievements and shortcomings of Nehruvian socialism; Poverty and the land; Conclusions; 3 Caste in Post-colonial India; Introduction: constitutional secularism and the ritual hierarchy; The jatis in Indian villages. Caste and political mobilisation in the Congress system'Non-Brahminism', Dravidian ideology and Dalit assertiveness in Tamil Nadu; Bihar: the origins of the 'caste wars'; 'Mandalisation' and after; 4 Politics and Economics in Independent African States ; Introduction; Africa's five-phased trajectory since 1960; Stagnant agriculture and the climacteric of the later 1970s; De-regulating agriculture: winners and losers in the 1990s; The business of politics and the patrimonial state; Structural adjustment and after; Conclusions: the end of post-colonialism in Africa. 5 Nigeria and Congo-Zaire, 1960-c. 1975: Decolonisation, Civil War and State RecoveryIntroduction; Contrasting colonial legacies; The crisis of the first Congolese Republic; The demand for a 'second independence'; Mobutu's second coming; Nigeria 1960-6: the crises of the First Republic and the road to civil war; Conclusions; 6 Nigeria and Congo-Zaire from the 1970s to the Late 1990s: Regional Giants, Giant Failures?; African absolutism: Mobutu in his pomp; Military rule and the Nigerian oil boom; Indigenising the economy: Zairianisation and Nigerianisation compared.
• Publisher Details: Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 456 pages), maps
• Subjects: 954.04; Asia/India & South Asia; Postcolonialism -- Africa, Sub-Saharan; Postcolonialism -- South Asia; South Asia -- History -- 21st century; Politics and government; Postcolonialism; HISTORY / Asia / India & South Asia; World; Africa/General; South Asia -- History -- 20th century; South Asia -- History -- 21st century; South Asia -- Politics and government -- 20th century; South Asia -- Politics and government -- 21st century; Africa, Sub-Saharan -- History -- 1960-; Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Politics and government -- 1960-; Africa, Sub-Saharan; South Asia; Electronic books; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 0230356982; 9780230356986
• Related ISBNs: 0230239838; 0230239846; 9780230239838; 9780230239845
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-438) and index.; Note: Print version record.
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