Production of postcolonial India and Pakistan : meanings of partition /
Ted Svensson.
- London: Routledge, 2013.
- x, 200 pages ; 25 cm.
What (kind of) independence? 1.1 Detecting the constitutive moment 24 1.2 Independence through Partition 30 1.3 Passive revolution or negation of negation? 36 1.3.1 Break or continuity? 37 1.3.2 Transition; not radical enough? 41 Caught in the paraiiax? Partition schoiarship and the unspeakable 2.1 Memory, history, violence 49 2.2 The fractured togetherness of citizenship 54 2.3 The postcolonial state and its pursuit of oneness 59 2.4 Official truths and suppressed rumours 64 Production of space: Identity, singularity and legitimacy 3.1 Post in postcolonial 70 3.2 Minorities and refugees: abjects and embodiments of the nation 76 3.3 The force of utterance: bringing the discursive to life 81 3.4 The space of time 86 Writing the genre of the new: Constituting the nation, community and universal citizenship 4.1 Name of the many, will of few 96 4.2 Instituting nearby horizons 103 4.3 To terminate a freedom movement 107 4.4 Minorities, backward tracts and the totality of the people 113 4.4.1 A proper site for 'minorities'? 114 4.4.2 Including the partially excluded 118 Overwriting class: Backwardness and the mature citizen 5.1 A right p' sychology for production': produce or perish 123 5.2 'Down with the Nehru Government': the communist call for 'real' independence 129 5.3 A partitioned revolution: 'popular' struggle from 'below' .135 The impossible totality: Indian citizenship and the constitutive split 6.1 The non-coincidence of the Self and (it)self 145 6.2 Exclusive inclusion and its inverted double 150 6.3 A double exile 154 6.4 Two deaths of colonialism and the abyss of freedom 158