Citizenship, Community and Democracy in India: From Bombay to Maharashtra, C. 1930 - 1960

ISBN-13: 9780367892937 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 204 str.

Oliver Godsmark

Opis

This book delivers ground-breaking perspectives upon nascent conceptions and workings of citizenship and democracy during the colonial/postcolonial transition. It examines how processes of democratisation and provincialisation during the interwar years contributed to demands and concerns and offers a broadened outlook on India’s partition.

Spis treści

1. Introduction 2. Maharashtra Between the Wars: Community, Number and Territory 3. Plotting out the Province: Plans and Panics over Reorganisation 4. Selecting Congress Candidates in a Democratising Bombay 5. Region, Reservations and Government Recruitment 6. Classifying and Counting Language at the 1951 Census 7. Conclusion

O autorze

Oliver Godsmark is currently Lecturer in International History at the University of Sheffield. He has published a number of articles on the history of late colonial and early postcolonial South Asia.