Ruling continuities: Colonial rule, social forces and path dependence in British India and Africa

Subrahmanyam, Gita

doi:10.1080/14662040600624478

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“…Specifically, its applications within economic geography and development policy are particularly salient in the present context. While path dependency has been used to observe accumulation of economic decision-making over time in relation to institutional structures (Arthur 1989;David 2001David , 2005, we are more concerned with studies that observe path dependence within the context of colonial legacies and property rights, particularly the preservation of colonial attitudes in spite of their inefficiencies (See Subrahmanyam 2006;Mwangi 2006;Nunn 2007;Jedwab et al, 2017). There are few studies within this context, particularly regarding the role of common owned property and how this type of land tenure endures in the aftermath of extreme events.…”

Section: Land Rights Colonial Legacies and Path Dependencymentioning

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The Resilience of Land Tenure Regimes During Hurricane Irma: How Colonial Legacies Impact Disaster Response and Recovery in Antigua and Barbuda

2019

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Antiguans and Barbudans have both raised concerns over the disaster recovery solutions put in place to mitigate damages sustained during Hurricane Irma in September 2017. In Barbuda, the potential loss of commonhold land ownership and the possibility of a land grab by foreign investors has tended to portray the island as a victim of disaster capitalism rather than as a resilient community. At the same time, neither island has addressed its vulnerabilities to future extreme events through any substantive legislative response, or immediate policy shifts. While it is vital that we attend to the exploitation of vulnerable populations and the efforts of economic restructuring that follow a disaster to better understand the impact of major weather events, we propose that the threat to commonhold land tenure in Barbuda and the legislative overreach of Antigua’s government on the matter following Hurricane Irma can be understood in terms of various landscape legacies and continuities rooted in ongoing struggles over land in Antigua and Barbuda spanning the periods of slavery, emancipation, and post-colonial independence. This paper situates the past with distinction in order to understand the resilience of land tenure regimes, and the ways in which this resilience affects the quality of post-disaster response in the post-Irma era. Using path dependency theory, we examine the tensions over land tenure in response to Hurricane Irma within the framework of colonial legacies of land rights. More specifically, this paper attempts to examine how these land tenure regimes took shape, and in what ways it has been contested and resisted over time. Our findings demonstrate how the imposition of modern land-use solutions atop a landscape shaped by 18th- and 19th-century practices complicates the mandate to plan for and mitigate the impacts of future disasters. The impact of Hurricane Irma on Barbuda further shows how resistance to legislative change might result in a form of ecological restraint rooted in social-cohesion and commonhold land tenure that is now coming under threat.

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Section: Land Rights Colonial Legacies and Path Dependencymentioning

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The Resilience of Land Tenure Regimes During Hurricane Irma: How Colonial Legacies Impact Disaster Response and Recovery in Antigua and Barbuda

2019

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“…Gita applied Martin Wight model of nine stages in process of democratization in India and proved that India was at the seventh stage of democratization at the time of independence. They were not ready for independence (Subrahmanyam, 2006). The Indians never enjoyed full internal self-government even at the provincial level under British rule.…”

Section: Autocratic Indians Council Actsmentioning

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“…The British spent very less on the welfare, education, health and other social and political activities of the people. The Table : Shows the percentage of annual expenditure in the three leading areas in British India (Subrahmanyam, 2006).…”

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Factors Responsible for Weak Democratic Culture among the Political Parties of the Pakistan

Shah

2017

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Democracy, as defined by Lincoln, is “government of the people by the people, and for the people” (1). Political parties around the globe function under the same ideology. On the contrary, the true democratic process is not fully observed within these parties. Though this observation is applicable globally to nearly all political parties in one way or another, in Pakistan, similar to other third world countries, the political parties have growing scarcity of the democratic culture. If party elections and voting are held to some extent, it is taken merely as a ritual or legal binding only. As a practice, one finds an authoritarian approach, hegemony, oligarchy and limited freedom of decision-making provided to members of parties.

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“…India and Nigeria have a centurieslong history of reciprocal relations, which has been further extended by their common experience under the British Empire. The colonial experience has produced a number of affinities which have been seen as one of the possible causes for Bollywood films' success in Nigeria (see Adamu, 2007;Larkin, 2002: 750), as well as the ground for the many cultural, political and economic interactions that took place since the independence of the two countries (Kura, 2009;Subrahmanyam, 2006). 1 These 'post-imperial affinities' have imposed themselves to scholars working on the two countries' film industries, who have often (implicitly or explicitly) acknowledged them in their analysis.…”

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Post-imperial affinities and neoliberal convergences: discourses and practices of collaboration between the Nigerian and the Indian film industries

Jedlowski

2017

Media, Culture & Society

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Over the past three decades, South-South economic interactions have multiplied. Within this landscape, media industries have come to occupy a relevant position, at the crossroad between soft power and hard economic interests. Numerous studies analysed the South-South circulation of media products, but many aspects of the ongoing interactions remain under-researched. This article contributes to this emerging field of scholarship by analysing the discourses and practices of collaboration that have emerged between the Indian and the Nigerian film industries over the past few years. By analysing the experiences of a few southern Nigerian and Indian film professionals who attempted to develop transnational collaborations, this article investigates the ambiguities of the affinities existing between Nollywood and Bollywood and interrogates the prospects for the creation of effective interactions between them.

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Ruling continuities: Colonial rule, social forces and path dependence in British India and Africa

Cited by 31 publications

References 39 publications

The Resilience of Land Tenure Regimes During Hurricane Irma: How Colonial Legacies Impact Disaster Response and Recovery in Antigua and Barbuda

The Resilience of Land Tenure Regimes During Hurricane Irma: How Colonial Legacies Impact Disaster Response and Recovery in Antigua and Barbuda

Factors Responsible for Weak Democratic Culture among the Political Parties of the Pakistan

Post-imperial affinities and neoliberal convergences: discourses and practices of collaboration between the Nigerian and the Indian film industries

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