Neither settler nor native : the making and unmaking of permanent minorities / Mahmood Mandani.

By:

Mamdani, Mahmood, 1946- [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020Description: 401 pages ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780674252721 (hbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

320.1 MAM 23 017624

LOC classification:

JC311 .M318 2020

Contents:

The Indian question in the United States -- Nuremberg: the failure of denazification -- Settlers and natives in apartheid South Africa -- Sudan: colonialism, independence, and secession -- The Israel/Palestine question -- Decolonizing the political community.

Summary: "The nation-state and the colonial state have always been the same thing: the ethnic and religious majorities of the former created only through the violent "minoritization" inherent in the latter. Assessing cases from the United States to Eastern Europe, Israel, and Sudan, Mahmood Mamdani suggests a radical solution: the state without a nation"--

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	320.1 MAM 017624 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		017624

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"The nation-state and the colonial state have always been the same thing: the ethnic and religious majorities of the former created only through the violent "minoritization" inherent in the latter. Assessing cases from the United States to Eastern Europe, Israel, and Sudan, Mahmood Mamdani suggests a radical solution: the state without a nation"--

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