Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 09:02:31 -0400 (EDT) From: David Butz <dbmarley-AT-spartan.ac.BrockU.CA> Subject: Re: .... Here we go I (I suppose) began this thread a couple of weeks ago by forwarding extracts from the Pakistan News Service. I have been intrigued by the ensuing discussion on the list. But... to the extent that "the postcolonial" is perhaps about "attending to the social and political processes that struggle against and work to unsettle the architecture of domination established through imperialism", I've been a bit perplexed by the direction the discussion has taken. Certainly, listmembers have linked contemporary Western (read American) imperialism to the the nuclear tests and (mainly) to the West's response... but not the mischievious process of partition,etc.(either the events of 1947, or the continuing efforts by the West to fan the flames of emnity between Indians and Pakistanis). Can anyone help me conceptualise the links between British Indian colonialism, the independence movement, the current Hindu nationalist government, the nuclear tests, and almost everyone's (it seems) indifference to the plight of Pakistan in all this? To what extent is this a continuation of "the Great Game" played by the British (and Russians, Chinese, Afghanis... and later Germans...) in the 19th and early 20th centuries in the Karakoram-HinduKush-Himalaya triangle? It seems that most of us can agree that (a) no one should have nuclear bombs, and (b) if some countries can have them, India (and I presume Pakistan) should be able to have them too... how does any of this help us work towards "the postcolonial" as described above (or thwart effots to do so)... either in theory or practice? David. --- from list postcolonial-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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