The Idea of the Postcolonial State India Shock

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The Idea of the Postcolonial State

The Idea of the Postcolonial State

 • India – Shock of partition – inability to manage communalism – Congress

• India – Shock of partition – inability to manage communalism – Congress party, English common language, linguistic reorganization of states, secularism, exec-legislative balance • Pakistan – Weak post-indep parties, institutional vacuum exposed by Bangladesh – Military as centralizer, Islamism as glue, US Support • Sri Lanka – Inherited most peaceful transition – Populist stimulation of Sinhalese majority attacks Tamil minority South Asia

African Post-colonialism Post-colonial state expansion • Incorporation of colonial extractive state structures – 50

African Post-colonialism Post-colonial state expansion • Incorporation of colonial extractive state structures – 50 s-60 s Commodity Boom • Elite and intellectual administration – racial subtext • Developmentalism – Parastatals replace weak Kists – Socialism and non-aligned movement – aid – ISI, NIEO • Social welfare https: //www. youtube. com/w atch? v=Chb. Gqe. APPYo

Collapse and Replacement • Centralization of power, single party democracy/autocracy – Corruption, clientelism, personalism

Collapse and Replacement • Centralization of power, single party democracy/autocracy – Corruption, clientelism, personalism • Collapse of ISI, expansion of state – Reagan-Thatcher counterattack – Debt Crisis. SAP • Political and economic regime change – Weaken state, fragment identities – Civil disorder, international breakdown

Postcolonial • Domesticate primordial sentiments (eg. STV elections) – Integrative revolution - Geertz •

Postcolonial • Domesticate primordial sentiments (eg. STV elections) – Integrative revolution - Geertz • Imagined community – Anderson – Recall history for modernity • Imagined institution – Kaviraj – Modernity is imagined and so was history

Third World-ism • Trajectory of World System – Decolonization – Bandung 1955 – Nonaligned

Third World-ism • Trajectory of World System – Decolonization – Bandung 1955 – Nonaligned • Nasser (EG), Nyrere (TZ), Nehru (IN) Sukarno (INDO), Nkrumah (GH), Keita (Mali) – OPEC, NIEO - 1975 • Interrupted by 1980 s-90 s debt crisis + neoliberal response • Has the national bourgeois model been superceded by transnational capitalist class – compradorization? – http: //www. c-span. org/video/? 314259 -1/bookdiscussion-poorer-nations – “ 7 -20 or so – Latin America’s Left Turn – 2000 s – BRICs - 2010