1st Edition
South Asia's Freedom in Global Perspective Nation, Partition, Federation
Introduction
Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal
Part I: Failure of Federation
1. A Rebel’s Constitution: States of Exception and Anticolonial Alternatives in the Making of the Indian Republic
Aniket De
2. The Limits of Progressive Politics: B.R. Ambedkar’s Thoughts on Pakistan
Ria Modak
3. Partitioned and Regionalized Visions in South Asian Diasporas: Indian and Pakistani Leagues of America in the Era of Decolonization
Neilesh Bose
Part II: Partition and Its Aftermath
4. Imagining the Pakistan Economy: From Debating Economic Viability to Evaluating Economic Policy, 1940–1951
Tariq Omar Ali
5. West Bengal and Its Muslims: A Narrative of "Long Minoritization"
Semanti Ghosh
6. Dialogue and Silence in Partition’s Shadow: The Muslim Question in Asghar Wajahat’s Fiction
Neeti Nair
Part III: Nation, Authoritarianism, and Federalism
7. The Indian Emergency (1975–1977) in Historical Perspective
Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal
8. The Land Question in Kashmir: Limitations of the Settler-Colonial Framework
Shahla Hussain
9. Terrors in the Night When All Cows are Black: Nomos, Authoritarianism, and Federalism
Kris Manjapra
Conclusion
Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal
Biography
Sugata Bose is the Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs at Harvard University. His books include A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire (2006); His Majesty’s Opponent: Subhas Chandra Bose and India’s Struggle against Empire (2011); Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy with Ayesha Jalal (5th edition, Routledge, 2023); and Asia after Europe: Imagining A Continent in the Long Twentieth Century (2024). He was elected a Guggenheim Fellow in 1997.
Ayesha Jalal is the Mary Richardson Professor of History at Tufts University. Her books include Self and Sovereignty: Individual and Community in South Asian Islam since 1850 (Routledge, 2000); Partisans of Allah: Jihad in South Asia (2008); Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy with Sugata Bose (5th edition, Routledge, 2023); and Muslim Enlightened Thought in South Asia (Routledge, 2025). She was elected a MacArthur "Genius" Fellow in 1998.
