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Week 1
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origins and Spread of Nationalism, London: Verso, 1983) 1-7, 163-185
Partha Chatterjee, The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories (Princeton, 1993), 3-13
Week 2
Katherine Adeney, 2015, ‘How to Understand Pakistan’s Hybrid Regime: The Importance of a Multidimensional Continuum’, Democratization, 1-22.
Ahmed, Emajuddin: "The Military and Democracy in Bangladesh", pp.101-118
Carl Armon and L. Philipson, Demanding Sacrifice
Sriskandarajah, Dhanajayan: "Fuelling the Ire: Inequality and Conflict in Late-Twentieth-Century Sri Lanka", pp. 1-25
The People's War
Hacchethu, Krishna: "Ethnicity and Inclusion", pp. 73-90
Shandana Khan Mohmand, “Local Government Reforms in Pakistan: Strengthening Social Capital or Rolling Back the State?”
Mahendra Lawoti, 2007, “Contentious Politics in Democratizing Nepal,” in Contentious Politics and Democratization in Nepal, M. Lawoti, ed, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. pp. 17-42.
James Sharrock, 2013, ‘Stability in Transition: Development Perspectives and Local Politics in Nepal,’ EBHR 42, pp. 9-38.
Week 3
Atul Kohli: "Where Do High Growth Political Economies Come From? The Japanese Lineages of Korea's Developmental State" from "World Development"
Kohli, Atul: "The State and Poverty in India - The Politics of Reform", pp. 1-5, 8-14, 48-50
Sims, Holly: "Political regimes, public policy and economic development : agricultural performance and rural change in two Punjabs", pp. 13-34, 181-89
Hasan, Arif: "The Unplanned Revolution: Observations on the Process of Socioeconomic Change in Pakistan", pp: 185-198
Ali Jan 19 Rural Elite Punjab book chapter
Lecture Slides for Week 3
Week 4
Varshney, Ashutosh: "Classes, like Ethnic Groups, Are Imagined Communities: A Response to Rao", p. 1737-1741
Ahmed, Akbra S: "Hazarawal: Formation and Structure of District Ethnicity", pp. 28-46
Yunus Samad (2014) Understanding the insurgency in Balochistan
Sri Lanka: Neil DeVotta, ‘From Ethnic Outbidding to Ethnic Conflict: The Institutional Bases for Sri Lanka's Separatist War’, Nations and Nationalism, 11:1 (2005), 141-59.
Sheikh, Farzana: "Muslims and Political Representation in Colonial India: The Making of Pakistan", pp. 81-100
Tambiah, B. S. J.: "Buddhism Betrayed? Religion, Politics and Violence in Sri Lanka", pp. 102-128
Katharine Adeney, 2015, ‘A Move to Majoritarian Nationalism? Challenges of Representation in South Asia’, Representation, 1-15.
Scott, David: "Community, Number and the Ethos of Democracy", pp. 158-189 File
Lecture Slides for Week Four
Week 5
Basu, Amrita: "Two Faces of Protest: Contrasting Modes of Women's Activism in India", pp. 3-24
Sagnik Dutta, 2014, ‘From Accommodation to Substantive Equality: Muslim Personal Law, Secular Law, and the Indian Constitution 1985-2015'
Shahabuddin, Elora: "Beware of the Bed of Fire", pp. 148-197
Shehabuddin, 'Beware the Bed of Fire'
Seira Tamang. 2009. ‘The Politics of Conflict and Difference or the Difference of Conflict in Politics: The Women’s Movement in Nepal’, Feminist Review 92, pp. 61-80.
Week 7
Sheikh, Farzana: "Muslims and Political Representation in Colonial India: The Making of Pakistan", pp. 81-100
Barbara Metcalf, ‘‘Traditionalist’ Islamic Activism: Deoband, Tabligh, and Talib’ (New York: Social Science Research Council, 2002)
Mohammad Qasim Zaman, ‘Sectarianism in Pakistan: The Radicalisation of Shia and Sunni Identities,’ Modern Asian Studies 32:3 (1998), 689-716
Vali Nasr, ‘International Relations of an Islamist Movement: The Case of the Jama’at-i Islami of Pakistan’ (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 2000)
Street Power- Ahsan Butt
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Week 8
Gobyn
Politics and Threat Perception Explaining Pakistani Military Strategy on the North West Frontier
Karl W. Eikenberry, ‘The Limits of Counterinsurgency Doctrine in Afghanistan’, Foreign Affairs 92:5 (2013)
Lewis
Rachel Kleinfeld and Rushda Majeed, ‘Fighting Insurgency with Politics’, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (2016)
Lecture Slides for the Week
Week 9
Kishore C. Dash, Regionalism in South Asia: Negotiating cooperation, institutional structures, London and New York: Routledge, 2008
P.V. Rao, “South Asia’s retarded regionalism”
Pratap Bhanu Mehta, “SAARC and the Sovereignty Bargain”, pp. 17-21, Himal Southasian, Nov-Dec, 2005.
Barry Buzan (2011) The South Asian Security Complex in a Decentring World
Lecture Slides on Regional Integration
Week 10
Boni, Filippo. ‘Civil-military relations in Pakistan: a case study of Sino-Pakistani relations and the port of Gwadar.’ Commonwealth & Comparative Politics 54:4 (2016), 498-517
Lim, Alvin Cheng-Hin. ‘The Moving Border of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor.’ Geopolitics (online first, October 2017), 1-16.
Zhu, Xiao'ou. ‘Demystifying the Role of Chinese Commercial Actors in Shaping China’s Foreign Assistance: The Case of Post-war Sri Lanka.’ Stability: International Journal of Security and Development 4:1 (2015), 1-18
Lim, Darren J., and Rohan Mukherjee. ‘What Money Can’t Buy: The Security Externalities of Chinese Economic Statecraft in Post-War Sri Lanka.’ Asian Security (online first, December 2017): 1-20.
Presentation for Week 9
Week 11
Jalal, Ayesha: "Democracy and Authoritarianism in South Asia", "State Formation and Political Processes in India and Pakistan, 1947 - 1971"
Musthaq Tumult in the Maldives
Coburn Elections and the failure of democratisation how voting has made Afghanistan less democratic from the ground up
Ten years of Sheikh Hasina Development minus democracy News Al Jazeera
Muni Bhutans Deferential Democracy (copy)
Riaz - Shifting Tides in South Asia
Constraining Consolidation Aqil Shah
Lecture Slides Week 10
TERM 2: Week 12 THE COLONIAL STATE
Chatterjee, Partha: The Nation and It's Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories, pp. 14-34
Kavirajonstate,societyanddiscourse
Codification - Kolsky (2)
Political Legacy of Colonialism in South Asia
Lecture notes
Week 13
Anil Seal Imperialism and Nationalism
Guru Nationalism and Dalit self-realisation
Jalal
Chatterjee
Indian nationalism lecture notes
Week 14
DE Smith 'India as a Secular State'
Bajpai 2000
Bali Lerner 2016
Constitutional Centring - Adeney
Competiing Nationhood - Mahendra Lawoti
Constituional Form and Reform in Sri Lanka
India's Constitutional framework and secularism
Week 15
Kothari 1964
Yadav 1999
Farooqui Sridharan
Democratic Dynasties? Party democracy in Bangladesh
Political Dynasty Formation in Bangladesh
Sri Lanka- From Turmoil to DYnasty
Party systems, parties and democracy in India
Week 16
Rudolph 1965
Weiner, Myron: "The Struggle for Equality: Caste in Indian Politics", Ch. 8
Jaffrelot 2000
Michelutti Heath 2013
Caste.Ethnicity and Inequality in Nepal
Developing a Culture of Marginality
caste, affirmative action and liberal democracy
Week 18
Jaffrelot India at 70
Hansen, Thomas: "The Saffron Wave: Democracy and Hindu Nationalism in Modern India", "Toward a National Hinduism"
Politics of Religion
Week 19
kohli
manor
Farrukh Fahim
Gurharpal Singh and Heewon Kim
Baruah
Week 20
Denoon Cycles of Liberalisation
Kohli 2006 politics of economic growth
Dreze and Sen 2013, esp chapters 2,3, 7,8
The Right Turn in India Authoritarianism Populism and Neoliberalisation (1)
Week 21
Wagner reading
Perkovich reading
Narang and Staniland
clary lalwani siddiqui (1)
Week 22
Jalal, Ayesha: "Democracy and Authoritarianism in South Asia", "State Formation and Political Processes in India and Pakistan, 1947 - 1971" (copy)
Kanchan Chandra Authoritarian elements in democracy
Adeney and Wyatt Democracy in South Asia
Al Stepan India Sri Lanka
democracy and authoritarianism in south asia
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