TY - BOOK ID - 85471595 TI - The insecurity state PY - 2017 SN - 1108547761 1108667538 1108548865 1108697445 110856853X 1108289746 110869702X 1108418317 1108407013 9781108568531 9781108289740 9781108697026 9781108407014 9781108418317 9781108407014 PB - Cambridge, United Kingdom New York, NY DB - UniCat KW - Nationalism KW - Consciousness, National KW - Identity, National KW - National consciousness KW - National identity KW - International relations KW - Patriotism KW - Political science KW - Autonomy and independence movements KW - Internationalism KW - Political messianism KW - History. KW - Punjab (India) KW - Panjab (India) KW - Pañjāba (India) KW - Пенджаб (India) KW - East Punjab (India) KW - Patiala and East Punjab States Union (India) KW - Politics and government KW - India KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85471595 AB - In this provocative new work, Mark Condos explores the 'dark underside' of the ideologies that sustained British rule in India. Using Punjab as a case study, he argues that India's colonial overlords were obsessively fearful, and plagued by an unreasoning belief in their own vulnerability as rulers. These enduring anxieties precipitated, and justified, an all too frequent recourse to violence, joined with an insistence on untrammelled power placed in the hands of the executive. Examining how the British colonial experience was shaped by a chronic sense of unease, anxiety, and insecurity, this is a timely intervention in debates about the contested project of colonial state-building, the oppressive and violent practices of colonial rule, the nature of imperial sovereignty, law, and policing and the postcolonial legacies of empire. ER -