India, Pakistan, Democracy and Us. Notes from the Fields of History and Political Studies to Agnieszka Nitza-Makowska’s Book
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.12775/DN.2023.2.10Keywords
India, Pakistan, democracy, geopolitics, voting processAbstract
The paper reviews a new book by Agnieszka Nitza-Makowska, underlining its well-drawn conclusions and other strong points but criticising some of its flaws, including the quasi-Orientalist way of describing the social context in which democracy in India and Pakistan is functioning.
References
Ahmad S., Class and Power in a Punjab Village, New York 1977.
Bangladesh Reader: History, Culture, Politics, ed. M. Guhathakurta, W. van Schendel, Durham 2013.
Dalrymple W., Kalijuga. Wiek waśni i sporów, przeł. B. Janczarska, Warszawa 2017.
Ebrahim Z.T., Don’t We Count? Transgender Pakistanis Feel Sidelined by Census, „Reuters” [online], 7 X 2017 [dostęp: 14 VIII 2023]: <https://www.reuters.com/article/pakistan-trans- gender-census-idUSL8N1ME398>.
Engelsen Ruud A., Heierstad G., On the Diversity of India’s Democracies, w: India’s Democracies: Diversity, Co-optation, Resistance, ed. A. Engelsen Ruud, G. Heierstad, Oslo 2016: <https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/29645/indias-democracies.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y> [dostęp: 19 X 2020].
Farooq A., Social Structural Changes in a Punjabi Village: A Sociological Revisit after over Five Decades, praca doktorska, University of the Punjab, Lahore 2011: <http://prr.hec. gov.pk/jspui/handle/123456789/2398> [dostęp: 19 X 2020].
Flasiński T., Tygrys przepołowiony. Spór o przyszłość Bengalu 1945–1947, Kraków 2020.
Haines D., Indus Divided: India, Pakistan and the River Basin Dispute, New Delhi 2017.
Immerwahr D., Thinking Small: The United States and the Lure of Community Development, Cambridge (Mass.) 2015.
India’s Democracies: Diversity, Co-optation, Resistance, ed. A. Engelsen Ruud, G. Heierstad, Oslo 2016: <https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/handle/20.500.12657/29645/indias-democracies.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y> (dostęp: 19 X 2020).
Jalal A., The State of Martial Rule: The Origins of Pakistan’s Political Economy of Defence, Lahore 1991.
Jones P.E., The Pakistan People’s Party: Rise to Power, Karachi 2003.
Katiyar P., Seetharaman G, India’s Political Families and Internal Strife, „The Economic Times” [online], 8 VI 2018 [dostęp: 19 X 2020]: <https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ nation-world/indias-political-families-and-internal-strife/indias-war-and-pariwar/slideshow/64505931.cms>.
Khan Mohmand S., Crafty Oligarchs, Savvy Voters: Democracy under Inequality in Rural Pakistan, Cambridge 2019.
Kimura M., The Nellie Massacre, w: Bangladesh Reader: History, Culture, Politics, ed. M. Guhathakurta, W. van Schendel, Durham 2013.
Lieven A., Pakistan: A Hard Country, New York 2011.
Lindholm Ch., Images of the Pathan: The Usefulness of Colonial Ethnography, „European Journal of Sociology” 1980, vol. XXI, No. 2.
Lyon S.M., Political Kinship in Pakistan: Descent, Marriage and Government Stability, Lanham 2019.
Martin N., Politics, Landlords and Islam in Pakistan, Abingdon 2016.
Pandiyan S., Gandhi’s Concept of Inter-Caste Marriage – a Critical Study, praca doktorska, Madurai Kamaraj University, 2007: <http://hdl.handle.net/10603/125122> [dostęp: 19 X 2020].
Patel D., Testament of a Liberal, New York 2000.
Tudor M., The Promise of Power: The Origins of Democracy in India and Autocracy in Pakistan, Cambridge 2013.
Usman A., Social Stratification in a Punjabi Village of Pakistan: The Dynamics between Caste, Gender, and Violence, praca doktorska, University of Leeds, 2011: <https://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/21130/> (dostęp: 19 X 2020).
Wakil P.A., Explorations into the Kin-Networks of the Punjabi Society: A Preliminary Statement, „Journal of Marriage and Family” 1970, vol. XXXII, No. 4.
Witsoe J., Democracy against Development: Lower-Caste Politics and Political Modernity in Postcolonial India, Chicago 2013.
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Stats
Number of views and downloads: 255
Number of citations: 0
