From Subjects to Citizens: Society and the Everyday State in India and Pakistan, 1947–1970

Sherman, Taylor C.; Gould, William; Ansari, Sarah

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“…Different but not unrelated questions about the relationship of legal forms to outcomes can be found in the legal transplantation literature (Andrews, Pritchett, and Woolcock 2013). Certainly, the observations made here are important and the impact of them may be to draw our historical gaze outward from the colonial lens and toward a broader one, including examining postcolonial transitions (Sherman, Gould, and Ansari 2014). This would usefully sharpen the focus on legal transformation.…”

Section: Rethinking Law Governance and The Statementioning

confidence: 96%

“An Unqualified Human Good”? On Rule of Law, Globalization, and Imperialism

Brown¹

2018

Law soc. inq.

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Forty years ago, E. P. Thompson praised the English rule of law forged during the bloody and fractious eighteenth century, calling it not only “an unqualified human good,” but also a “cultural achievement of universal significance.” This article examines colonial rule-of-law development as another example of law and state building. Both have relevance for contemporary rule-of-law programming in the Global South where Thompson's “cultural achievement” has resisted fabrication by legal technicians. The problems faced today are not new, for colonial rulers also engaged with complex indigenous norms and forms and sought to balance universal principles with political control imperatives. Contra arguments about colonial “lawfare,” colonial rule of law often frustrated authoritarian tendencies while developing new forms of legal subjectivity and avenues for redress of grievances. Using data from the Indian province of Punjab, the article illustrates how historical case studies might aid contemporary rule-of-law programming in the Global South.

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Section: Rethinking Law Governance and The Statementioning

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“An Unqualified Human Good”? On Rule of Law, Globalization, and Imperialism

Brown¹

2018

Law soc. inq.

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“…9See overviews in Chatterji, “South Asian Histories of Citizenship”; and idem, “Partition Studies.” See also Sherman, Gould, and Ansari, From Subjects to Citizens ; Ansari and Gould, Boundaries of Belonging ; Zamindar, The Long Partition ; Kaur, Since 1947 ; and Roy, Gendered Citizenship .…”

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Histories of Indian Citizenship in the Age of Decolonisation

Ramnath¹

2021

Itinerario

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This essay discusses the important contributions of three new works on Indian citizenship by Ornit Shani, Uditi Sen, and Oliver Godsmark. Their books discuss the territorial partition of the subcontinent into India and Pakistan in 1947, the framing and inauguration of the Indian Constitution in 1950, the preparation of voter rolls and the first democratic elections, and linguistic reorganisation of Indian states in 1956, alongside questions of refugee rehabilitation, counterinsurgency measures and rising ethnonationalisms. The emphasis is not only on the legal regimes of national citizenship, but also how it is unevenly mapped and experienced. This emphasis on territoriality is an invitation to ask questions about continuity and change in the transition from empires to nation-states, as well as invented pasts and imagined futures that transcend national borders set up after the end of colonial rule.

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“…16 13 T.C. Sherman, W. Gould, S. Ansari, 'From Subjects to Citizens: Society and the Everyday State in India and Pakistan, 1947-1970, ' Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 45, No.…”

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Interpreting the legacy of partition in the subcontinent: Indian and Pakistani perspectives

Chakrabarti

2021

Politeja

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The twentieth century partitions, it has been argued, have been essentially the by‑products of three interlinked global developments: (a) decolonisation; (b) democratisation and the (c) Cold War dynamics. The partition of the Indian subcontinent, in particular, bore the imprint of the maelstrom produced by the intertwining of these three forces. The process of partition in South Asia did not only involve simple division and reorganisation of territories but was accompanied by devolution and indigenisation of political institutions and governance, placing partition at the heart of the process of nation‑state formation. In this sense, the longue duree process of the partitioning of the subcontinent has continued to cast its long shadow over the nation‑building process leading to internal discrepancies and the development of regional dynamics, often competitive and conflictual in nature.

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From Subjects to Citizens: Society and the Everyday State in India and Pakistan, 1947–1970

Cited by 11 publications

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“An Unqualified Human Good”? On Rule of Law, Globalization, and Imperialism

“An Unqualified Human Good”? On Rule of Law, Globalization, and Imperialism

Histories of Indian Citizenship in the Age of Decolonisation

Interpreting the legacy of partition in the subcontinent: Indian and Pakistani perspectives

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