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WEEK 1 HOUSEKEEPING & INTRODUCTION

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

Lectures Slides Week 1

WEEK 2 COMPARATIVE POLITICS - POLITICAL ORDER

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

Sriskandarajah, Dhanajayan: "Fuelling the Ire: Inequality and Conflict in Late-Twentieth-Century Sri Lanka", pp. 1-25

https://www.c-r.org/accord/sri-lanka

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.

Benedict Anderson (1983) Imagined Communities

Lecture Slides for Week 2

Tutorial Notes for Week 2

WEEK 3: COMPARATIVE POLITICAL ECONOMY

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

Lecture Slides Week 3

Tutorial Discussion Notes Week 3

WEEK 4: COMPARATIVE POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY : ETHNIC & RELIGIOUS CONFLICT

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 Week 4

Tutorial Notes Week 4

Rubinah presentation

Link to Alaya's slides

WEEK 5: COMPARATIVE POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY: GENDER

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

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.

Lecture Week 5 slides

Tutorial Discussions Week 4: Gender

WEEK 7: COMPARATIVE POLITICAL SOCIOLOGY: ISLAM

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)

Reading Guide for W 7

Lecture Slides Week 7

WEEK 8: COMPARATIVE & INTERNATIONAL POLITICS - INSURGENCY & COUNTERINSURGENCY

ZOOM RECORDING OF INSURGENCY &amp; COUNTERINSURGENCY LECTURE

Gobyn

Lewis

Karl W. Eikenberry, ‘The Limits of Counterinsurgency Doctrine in Afghanistan’, Foreign Affairs 92:5 (2013)

Rachel Kleinfeld and Rushda Majeed, ‘Fighting Insurgency with Politics’, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (2016)

TODAY'S LECTURE ZOOM LINK

WEEK 9: COMPARATIVE & INTERNATIONAL POLITICS - REGIONAL INTEGRATION & INTL ORGANISATIONS

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 Week 9

153400020 Government & Politics of South Asia A20/21 Exam replacement Essay Titles - May-June 2022

ZOOM RECORDING OF INSURGENCY & COUNTERINSURGENCY LECTURE

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