scholarly journals THE FORMATION OF THE POST-COLONIAL INDIAN STATE IN SOVIET HISTORIOGRAPHY: THE INTERPLAY BETWEEN THE RULING IDEOLOGY AND THE WRITING OF HISTORY

2009 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Kulnazarova Aigul ◽  
Keyword(s):  
State Formation ◽  
History Writing ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Government Ideology ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
Indian State ◽  
Post War ◽  
Soviet Historiography

India gained her independence from British rule in August 1947, and her Constitution came into force in January 1950. These important events opened up a new page in the history of Indian state development, and also ushered onto the world stage a defining era of decolonization. Moreover, India was amongst the first colonies to endorse the so-called "civilized divorce" from her former colonial power, which promoted the smooth and gradual shift towards her sovereign status. Therefore, the events, which ultimately led to Indian independence and the formation of the post-colonial state, have been previously documented by historians of various schools of Indian history in different parts of the world. The present paper will discuss the formation process of Indian state sovereignty during 1947-1950, as it had been imagined, studied, and constructed by Soviet historians. It is important to study this issue in the light of Soviet historiography in order to recognize this interpretation of the past as an example of the relationship between history-writing the ruling government ideology. In addition to providing a detailed analysis of Soviet historiography on the status of post-colonial Indian state formation and sovereignty, this paper seeks to identify key moments in the development of Soviet history-writing in the post-war period, which can be useful in helping us to discern some main themes and intricacies of Indian state formation from a Soviet perspective.

R. G. Skrynnikov: The Historian and the World – the World of the Historian (An Attempt at Reconstruction)

2013 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 263-274
Author(s):  
Gyula Szvák
Keyword(s):  
Peculiar Feature ◽  
Clear Picture ◽  
Soviet Regime ◽  
Democratic Values ◽  
History Writing ◽  
Soviet History ◽  
Three Generations ◽  
The World ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Soviet Historiography

It is time to study the man himself and not just his work. This brief study would like to sketch out this problem. To understand Ruslan Skrynnikov and his work, we must have a clear picture of Soviet history writing. It is a peculiar feature of his life and career that he had to struggle for acceptance and recognition even within his own restricted world. Skrynnikov’s works of the 1960s were still framed by the determinative Engelsian conception of centralization. Ruslan Grigor’evich followed the mainstream path of Soviet medievalists until the fall of Soviet regime, though Soviet historiography would prove to be his Procrustean bed; in the 1990s he experimented with breaking free of it. We have no reason to ignore the scholarly ethos in Skrynnikov’s new books, and his efforts to discover democratic values in the Russian past. The scholarship of Ruslan Skrynnikov has assumed a permanent place in world historiography. A. S. Lappo-Danilevsky, B. A. Romanov, R. G. Skrynnikov: three generations, one school, The Petersburg-Leningrad school of Russian-Soviet historiography.

scholarly journals Silent but deadly: a review of "Samson & Delilah"

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rayane Tamer
Keyword(s):  
First Nations ◽  
Indigenous People ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Nations People ◽  
Indigenous Representation ◽  
The World ◽  
First Nations People ◽  
Indigenous Society

Ironically, since European colonisation, there has been a deafening silence of Indigenous representation in all forms and at all societal levels. As Stanner asserts, Indigenous people have been written out of history (1967, p. 22), but the disappearance of our First Nations people is not limited to just the encyclopaedias. Australians have long been viewing media and cinema through a white lens, largely representing an Anglo society, and by its binary, neglecting the Indigenous society that – while subjugated to a near nothingness – remains poignant to this nation’s existence. Indigenous filmmaker Warwick Thornton challenges this white lens in Samson & Delilah (2009), in what has been hailed as Australia’s ‘most important film’ (Redwood 2009, p. 27). Thornton’s film encapsulates the post-colonial state of Indigenous society through a perspective that is rarely shown, but is necessary for the nation and, more generally, the world, to understand the ways in which the First Nations people are subordinated on their own land.

Level Playing Fields: The Post-Colonial State, Democracy, Courts and Citizenship in India

2008 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Subrata K. Mitra
Keyword(s):  
Social Values ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
General Category ◽  
Effective Management ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Contemporary World ◽  
The World ◽  
Playing Fields ◽  
Contemporary Context

This article analyses the legal, political and moral basis of citizenship in the contemporary world. India is analyzed here as a case in point of a general category of ‘changing societies’ emerging from colonial or communist rule. Citizenship, which used to be considered a part of the general problem of nation-building, has increasingly acquired the character of a salient problem in its own right. This change in perspective has come about as a consequence of globalization and the world-wide diffusion of basic norms of human rights. In the contemporary context, with regard to the problems of endangered minorities whose lives, dignity and welfare are at risk – be it in Kashmir or Kosovo – the world at large considers itself morally bound to intervene, if not militarily, then at least in terms of the invocation of law and good conduct. As such, from the point of view of the post-colonial state, both its national sovereignty and legitimacy are contingent on its success with turning its whole population into citizens. This, the article argues, is contingent on the ability of the post-colonial state to gear its laws, courts and administration towards effective management of identity and the constitutional incorporation of core social values (see Figure 2 below). With regard to ‘making citizens out of subjects’, the Indian ‘experiment’ holds important lessons for other states, ensconced in multi-cultural societies.

scholarly journals Adivasis, Integration and the State in India: Experiences of Incompatibilities

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-121
Author(s):  
JAGANNATH AMBAGUDIA ◽  
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SASMITA MOHANTY ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Integration Policy ◽  
Citizenship Rights ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Integration Approach ◽  
Indian State ◽  
Sense Of Involvement ◽  
Mainstream Society ◽  
Equal Citizenship

Anthropologists, administrators and policy makers debated the adivasis question in the post-independent India from the perspectives of isolation, assimilation and integration. Amidst discourses, integration approach was followed to address the adivasi issues in the post-colonial period. Following the integration approach, the Indian state made series of promises to the adivasis in terms of granting equal citizenship rights in social, economic, political and cultural spheres; providing equal opportunities and committed to preserve and protect adivasi culture and identity. Despite such promises, adivasis continue to live at the margin of the post-colonial state, and thereby experiencing different forms of marginalization, dispossession and deprivation. They have developed cynicism towards the integration policy and experiencing declining sense of involvement in the (mainstream) society. The integration approach of the Indian state has become a means of exclusion for the adivasis in India. Within this backdrop, the paper critically examines the contemporary dynamics of integration of adivasis in the Indian state.

The Constitution of the Czechoslovak Republic of 1920: to the issues of democracy of post-war state formation

2021 ◽  
pp. 188-194
Author(s):  
A. Tykhonenko
Keyword(s):  
State Formation ◽  
Independent State ◽  
National Minorities ◽  
National Movement ◽  
National Question ◽  
Legal Restriction ◽  
The Status ◽  
Post War ◽  
Democratic Principles ◽  
Legal Meaning

The article describes how the features of the First Czechoslovak Republic state formation corresponded to democratic principles; it is examined the influence of external factors and tendencies to the constitutional process; it is investigated the implementation of the fundamental principles of democracy in the norms of the Czechoslovak Constitution of 1920. It should be stressed that the foundation of Czechoslovakia was influenced by democratic values, but also it was directly influenced by the interests of the Entente Powers, especially Great Britain and France. It manifested itself in the fact that representatives of the Czechoslovak national movement sought the support of the Entente states in the process of creating an independent state of Czechs and Slovaks in territories over which the pre-war sovereignty of the Austro-Hungarian Empire was recognized. Members of the Czechoslovak national missions were negotiating with representatives of foregin politics at this period. Czechoslovak national corps were created, fought on the side of the Entente states and formed the basis of the future army of the state, whose project was actively promoted. However, total control and dependence on Entente’s strategic interests which sometimes went against the established principles of democracy was the other side of the Entente’s support for the Czechoslovak national movement. For this reason, the democratic principles of state formation violated, and this especially concerned the solution of the national question. Features of the Czechoslovak state formation were of direct importance for the constitutional process. As a result, the democratic nature of the norms that regulated the status of national minorities, the legal meaning of the concept of “the Czechoslovak people”, the authority of the President of Czechoslovakia, can be questioned. Nevertheless, the author comes to the conclusion that the Constitution consistently contained norms on human rights and freedoms, and it regulated the mechanism of legal restriction of state power. Therefore, conclusions are drawn that the constitution of the Czechoslovak Republic was democratic.

scholarly journals Philosophical Reflections on Existentialism and Phenomenology in the Films of Wong Kar-Wai

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lianghui Huang ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Role Identity ◽  
Theoretical Interpretation ◽  
Emotional Tension ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Colonial Society ◽  
World Cinema ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Post Industrial

Since the 1990s, the unique image of Wong Kar-wai's films in the pattern of world cinema is getting more and more appealing throughout the world. Through the investigation of the status, role, identity and gender of Wong Kar-wai's films, we can find that Wong Kar-wai's films are a unique landscape of the auteur film in the context of Hong Kong's post-industrial and post-colonial society. Nowadays, more and more scholars have tried to combine Wong Kar-wai's films with philosophical and aesthetic theories when the world's diverse ideologies competed and disseminated. Then, the two philosophical theories of existentialism and film phenomenology have related connections about humans and nature, which have the opportunity to have a game-like theoretical interpretation with Wong Kar-wai's films, which may better unravel the inner flow of confusion and emotional tension of his films.

Tomorrow Belongs to Those …

2019 ◽  
pp. 133-140
Author(s):  
Tahir Abbas
Keyword(s):  
Trojan Horse ◽  
Minority Communities ◽  
Modern Racism ◽  
Muslim Minority ◽  
The World ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Face ◽  
British Muslims ◽  
Post War ◽  
Local Levels

This chapter delves into the world of British Muslims who have experienced a whole host of interconnected challenges at the national and local levels, with the perils of Brexit sowing deep divisions. It also introduces the so-called ‘Trojan Horse’ affair of 2014, which demonstrated that Islamophobia had reached the highest levels of government. After seventy years of post-war immigration, settlement and adaptation to society, many Muslim minority communities continue to face racism, prejudice, intolerance, bigotry and discrimination, affecting educational outcomes and their sense of identity. Dominant notions of race and nation have thrust Muslims into the limelight as the most racialized, objectified and ‘othered’ group in education, but adaptation and social integration has simply not occurred because of the workings of wider society. The presumption that promoting ‘British values’ will somehow eliminate the structural inequalities that result from modern racism is nonsensical, as it will simply reproduce the status quo, recreating the conditions for disadvantage and discrimination. It is an attempt to preserve ethnic nationalism in the face of its ongoing disintegration.

‘State failure’ in theory and practice: the idea of the state and the contradictions of state formation

2010 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 229-247 ◽  
Author(s):  
STEIN SUNDSTØL ERIKSEN
Keyword(s):  
State Formation ◽  
The State ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
State Failure ◽  
Actual State ◽  
Weak States ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
The One

AbstractThis article provides a critique of the discourse of ‘failed states’, and outlines an alternative approach. It is argued that by taking the model of the modern state for granted, and by analysing all states in terms of their degree of correspondence with or deviation from this ideal, this discourse does not help us understand the nature of the states in question, or the processes that lead to strong or weak states. Instead, the idea of the state should be treated as a category of practice and not as a category of analysis. Post-colonial state formation could then be analysed by focusing on the inter-relationship between the idea of the state and actual state practices, and on the ways that states have become linked to domestic society on the one hand and their relations with the external world on the other.

scholarly journals A Bibliographic Survey on State-Minority Contestations in Post-Colonial Sri Lanka

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 48 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. M. Fazil
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
State Formation ◽  
Research Work ◽  
The State ◽  
Empirical Literature ◽  
Colonial State ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
State Constitution ◽  
The Social ◽  
Extensive Body

There is an extensive body of literature that delves deeply into the question of how a state is constituted, by examining it from various theoretical and empirical perspectives. Scholars engaged in the field of political science, as well as in other fields such as the social sciences, are constantly endeavouring to explain the myriad ways in which states are formed in different regions of the world. According to one set of academics, the social setup that prevailed in most of the post-colonial states of Asia, Africa, and Latin America was mainly due to the plurality of their multi-ethnic, multi-linguistic, and multi-cultural populations. This plurality had a profound effect on the way the state was formed. A significant volume of literature on Sri Lanka too is available, much of which approaches the question of state formation and reconstitution from the standpoint of ethnicity and nationalism. This survey reviews both the theoretical and empirical literature on state constitution/ formation and pays special attention to three main themes; viz. theories on state constitution (formation), research on post-colonial state formation, and studies about Sri Lankan politics. The state-in-society theory is studied with focus on the crucial question of how state and society transform and constitute one another. This is a qualitative study based on text analysis. A wide selection of existing literature was reviewed. This survey shows that there is a paucity of research work on post-colonial state formation in Sri Lanka and state-minority contestations. It also draws attention to the research gaps in existing literature and the need to explore them further.

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