DYSFUNCTIONAL NATION
Apr 11, 2020
2 minutes
By Siddiq Wahid
Since the British withdrawal from South Asia, modern nation-state-building in the region has been a fraught exercise for India and Pakistan and, latterly, Bangladesh and the other South Asian states. Modern India’s “official history” (to borrow Perry Anderson’s term) exalts her adoption of liberal democracy and a republican constitution. Thicker political histories describe the project as a complex, multifaceted task, deficit
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