Decolonization in South Asia

Re-Assessing Early Sikh Migration Histories on Turtle Island: An Anti-Colonial and Critical Solidarity Perspective

“…Firstly, in the context of post-colonial India, decolonization is often viewed as a political process in the imagination of India's history with the British empire, and the resultant partition of 1947, which led to the formation of Pakistan as a separate nation-state (Sengupta, 2019). By this logic, decolonization through the formation of Pakistan and Bangladesh in post-colonial India and the country's "independence" in 1947, has already been enacted?…”

“…The above understanding is also necessary when theorizing the attempt to replace the legacies and structures of settler colonialism in academia scholarship (Tuhiwai Smith, 1999;LeFevre, 2015). Therefore, it was important to establish the contextualizing of decolonization within the Indian subcontinent, which is considered an ideological process post colonization compared to settler colonial states like Canada, where colonialism is on-going (Sengupta, 2019;Tuhiwai -Smith,1999). In the context of Canada and in other settler nations such as Australia and New Zealand, decolonisation is not just a metaphor but a political and material phenomenon which challenges the ongoing settler colonialism (LeFevre, 2015;Tuck and Yang, 2012).…”