A01=Ilhan Niaz
Author_Ilhan Niaz
Category=NHF
colonial democracies
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institutional development
mass politics
modern constitutional state
South Asian elites
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- ISBN 9789697342204
- Dimensions: 142 x 280mm
- Publication Date: 02 Aug 2025
- Publisher: Oxford University Press,Pakistan
- Publication City/Country: PK
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book explores institutional development in British India which encompassed both the modernization of existing practices and arrangements (such as the bureaucracy and the military) and the importation of alien practices (such as the rule of law, representation, and mass politics). During the nearly two centuries of British political and military domination of South Asia, the institutional basis for India’s and Pakistan’s colonial democracies was laid. For varied reasons, South Asian elites have been reluctant to engage with the history of British India as a state that was very much the successor of the Timurid (Mughal) Empire and the precursor to the republics of contemporary South Asia.
Ilhan Niaz, is the author of several books including An Inquiry into the Culture of Power of the Subcontinent (Islamabad: Alhamra, 2006); The Culture of Power and Governance of Pakistan, 1947–2008 (OUP, 2010); Old World Empires: Cultures of Power and Governance in Eurasia (New York: Routledge, 2014.
