The Insecurity State : Punjab and the Making of Colonial Power in British India
by
Mark Condos
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Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
1108407013
ISBN-13
9781108407014
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
May 7th, 2020
Print length
272 Pages
Weight
410 grams
Dimensions
15.10 x 22.90 x 0.20 cms
Product Classification:
Asian historyModern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900Colonialism & imperialism
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Condos explores the 'dark underside' of the ideologies that sustained British rule in India. He argues that India's colonial overlords were obsessively fearful, and plagued by an unreasoning belief in their own vulnerability as rulers. These enduring anxieties precipitated, and justified, an all too frequent recourse to violence.
In this provocative new work, Mark Condos explores the ''dark underside'' of the ideologies that sustained British rule in India. Using Punjab as a case study, he argues that India''s colonial overlords were obsessively fearful, and plagued by an unreasoning belief in their own vulnerability as rulers. These enduring anxieties precipitated, and justified, an all too frequent recourse to violence, joined with an insistence on untrammelled power placed in the hands of the executive. Examining how the British colonial experience was shaped by a chronic sense of unease, anxiety, and insecurity, this is a timely intervention in debates about the contested project of colonial state-building, the oppressive and violent practices of colonial rule, the nature of imperial sovereignty, law, and policing and the postcolonial legacies of empire.
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