This research, a three-year collaboration between the History departments at Royal Holloway and the University of Leeds, explores the shift from colonial rule to independence in three sites on the subcontinent – Uttar Pradesh (formerly the United Provinces), Sindh, and the Princely State of Hyderabad (Deccan) – with the aim of unravelling the explicit meanings and relevance of ‘independence’ for the new citizens of India and Pakistan in the two decades immediately following 1947.
A workshop of this research, which took place on 12 August 2009 at Royal Holloway, with Ornit Shani,Vazira Zaminda,William Gould,Ravinder Kaur, Sarah Ansari and others, has recorded and is now available to listen to (and download0 as a series of podcasts at:
http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2009/08/from-subjects-to-citizens-society-and-the-everyday-state-in-india-and-pakistan-1947-1964/
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