The Insecurity State: Punjab and the Making of Colonial Power in British India

by Mark Condos

In this provocative new work, Mark Condos explores the 'dark underside' of the ideologies that sustained British rule in India. Using Punjab as a case study, he argues that India's colonial overlords were obsessively fearful, and plagued by an unreasoning belief in their own vulnerability as rulers. These enduring anxieties precipitated, and justified, an all too frequent recourse to violence, joined with an insistence on untrammelled power placed in the hands of the executive. Examining how the British colonial experience was shaped by a chronic sense of unease, anxiety, and insecurity, this is a timely intervention in debates about the contested project of colonial state-building, the oppressive and violent practices of colonial rule, the nature of imperial sovereignty, law, and policing and the postcolonial legacies of empire.

270 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 3, 2017

Reviews

[Kavya · Rating 4 out of 5]

翻阅。argument简洁直接 与当今政治有很多相关性 其分析深度有待考察。。末尾讲到了印度这方面的相似程度