War and Nationalism in South Asia
Subtitle: The Indian State and the Nagas (Routledge Advances in South Asian Studies)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: December 14, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780415437417
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history; Political Science; Politics/International Relations; ASIA; Political Science / General; General
Description: "This book presents and analyses the oldest sub-national war of postcolonial South Asia, between the Indian state and the Nagas of Northeast India. It offers a serious and thorough political history on the Naga region over three periods, pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial." "Drawing on a wealth of primary sources and comparative and theoretical literature, Marcus Franke demonstrates that agency and identity-formation are an on-going process that neither started nor ended with colonialism. Although the interaction of the local population with colonialism produced a Naga national elite, it was the emergence of the Indian political class, with access to superior means of nation and state-building, that was able to undertake the modern Indo-Naga war. This war firmly made the Nagas into a 'nation' and that set them onto the road to independence." "War and Nationalism in South Asia fundamentally revises our understanding of the existing 'histories' of the Nagas by exposing them to be influenced by colonial or post-colonial narratives of domination. Furthermore, by placing the region into the longue duree of state formation with its involved technique of imperial rule, the book presents a new approach to the study of nationalism and war in South Asia in general." "This book will be of interest to students and scholars of politics, history, anthropology and South Asian studies."--BOOK JACKET.