{"product_id":"war-and-nationalism-in-south-asia-1","title":"War and Nationalism in South Asia","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing 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 élite, 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWar 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 durée 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book will be of interest to students and scholars of politics, history, anthropology and South Asian studies. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54262307520856,"sku":"9780415502160","price":40.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780415502160.jpg?v=1769829334","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/war-and-nationalism-in-south-asia-1","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}