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Potted Histories: Beyond India

Politics of South Asia - Beyond India - Syllabus 2021

POSA Schedule of Presenters 2021

Some Guidelines for Writing a Good Reaction Paper - POSA 2021

Some Guidelines for Writing a Good Research Paper - POSA

Week 1

Partha Chatterjee, The Nation and Its Fragments: Colonial and Postcolonial Histories (Princeton, 1993), 3-13

Routledge Handbook of South Asian Politics Part I Colonialism Nationalism and Independence

POSA slides -week 1

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

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

James Sharrock, 2013, ‘Stability in Transition: Development Perspectives and Local Politics in Nepal,’ EBHR 42, pp. 9-38.

Demanding Sacrifice War and Negotiation in Sri Lanka Accord Issue 4

POSA slides -week 2

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

Ali Jan 19 Rural Elite Punjab book chapter

Lecture Slides for Week 3

Umair Javed - Ascending the Power Structure

Presentation for POSA Lecture three (1)

Week 4

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

Class like Ethnic Groups, are Imagined Communities

Presentation for POSA Lecture Four

Week 5

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.

Sarah Khan - Women in Electoral Politics

Presentation for POSA Lecture Five

Basu 1992 two faces of protest

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

Street Power- Ahsan Butt

Nasr - International Relations of an Islamist Movement

Presentation for POSA Week 7

Week 8

Constitutional Form and Reform Sri Lanka

Emergency and Politics of Judiciary in Bangladesh - Ridwanul Hoque

Lawoti - Competing Nationhood and Constitutional Instability - Mahendra Lawoti

Kureshi - Judicial Politics in a Hybrid Democracy

Presentation for POSA Week 8

Week 9

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

Lecture Slides for the Week

Politics and Threat Perception Explaining Pakistani Military Strategy on the North West Frontier

From War to Peace The Nepalese Maoists s Strategic and Ideological Thinking

The failure of a liberal peace Sri Lanka s counter insurgency in global perspective

Limits of Counterinsurgency doctrine

Presentation for POSA Lecture Insurgencies

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”

Barry Buzan (2011) The South Asian Security Complex in a Decentring World

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.

Boni, Filippo. ‘Civil-military relations in Pakistan: a case study of Sino-Pakistani relations and the port of Gwadar.’ Commonwealth &amp; Comparative Politics 54:4 (2016), 498-517

Lecture Slides on Regional Integration

Week 10

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"

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