Deconstructing India-Pakistan Relations by Sanjeev Kumar H. M. - 9781032572659

Deconstructing India-Pakistan RelationsState Security and Colonial History\nAuthor(s): Sanjeev Kumar H. M.\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032572659, 978-1032572659\nSynopsis\nThis book examines the complex dynamics of India-Pakistan relations, by situating the same in the postcolonial setting of the subcontinent. In pursuit of this, the book analyses the impact of the linkages between the postcolonial processes of state-making and the structuring of political communities, upon the evolution of the problmatique of state security in South Asia.\n\nFor the purpose of undertaking this task, the author deconstructs the countries colonial history, with an aim to mapp its impact on the making of the foreign policy of Pakistan. Drawing primarily from colonial discourse theory and historical sociology, the book links the trajectory of Pakistans international politics, to its domestic politics and weak state inheritance.