From subjects to citizens: society and the everyday state in North India and Pakistan, 1947-1964
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Grant Holder:
Dr William Gould
This research project is a three-year collaboration between the universities of Leeds and Royal Holloway which is studying the interaction between state and citizen immediately before and in the two decades following India and Pakistan’s independence in 1947. The website contains downloadable podcasts of interviews, a bibliography, links to archives and a mailing list. To date, research has concentrated on the politics high levels of government, and little work has been done on the impact of independence and partition on everyday life. The project aims to focus on “citizen experiences” in the former British Indian provinces of Uttar Pradesh (formerly the United Provinces) and Sindh.
| Project start date: 2007-04 | Project end date: 2010-09 |
Subject domains:
Era(s):
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| Methods used | Category |
|---|---|
| Audio interaction (asynchronous) | Communication and collaboration |
| Resource sharing | Communication and collaboration |
| Sound recording | Data capture |
| Streaming media | Data publishing and dissemination |
| Textual interaction (synchronous) | Communication and collaboration |
| sound | Content types |
| text | Content types |
Funding sources:
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
Content types created:
Sound, Text
Software tools used:
Javascript, jQuery
Source material used:
Digitised sources from the Uttar Pradesh State Archive will be added to the site, and digitised research interviews.
Digital resource created:
Interviews conducted for Dr W Gould's principal output ('Bureaucracy, Community and Influence: Society and the State in India, 1930-1960s' (Routledge, forthcoming) have been created for this project. These interviews were conducted with retired civil servants and policemen, and a selection of partition migrants.
Access to digital resource:
Open Access
Data Formats created:
Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3 (MP3)
Publications:
The following publications are forthcoming on this project:
William Gould, 'Bureaucracy Community and Influence: Society and the State in India, 1930-60s' (Routledge, forthcoming 2010/11)
Special Issue of Modern Asian Studies, containing papers from our first workshop (see http://www.leeds.ac.uk/subjectstocitizens/publications/mas.html)
W. Gould, S. Ansari, T. Sherman, joint article, shortly to be submitted.
Sarah Ansari - monograph.
William Gould, 'Bureaucracy Community and Influence: Society and the State in India, 1930-60s' (Routledge, forthcoming 2010/11)
Special Issue of Modern Asian Studies, containing papers from our first workshop (see http://www.leeds.ac.uk/subjectstocitizens/publications/mas.html)
W. Gould, S. Ansari, T. Sherman, joint article, shortly to be submitted.
Sarah Ansari - monograph.
Institutions affiliated with this project:
| UK HE institutions involved: |
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| University of Leeds |
| UK HE institutions involved: |
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| Royal Holloway |
| University of London |
Project staff and expertise:
| Principal staff member: | Dr William Gould, Dr. Sarah Ansari, Dr. Taylor Sherman |
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| Other staff: | PhD student(s), Postdoctoral researcher(s) / Research assistant(s) |
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| Author(s) of record | William Gould |
| Title | From subjects to citizens: society and the everyday state in North India and Pakistan, 1947-1964 |
| Record created | 2010-06-01 |
| Record updated | 2010-06-01 16:28 |
| URL of record | http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/3628 |
| Citation of record | William Gould: From subjects to citizens: society and the everyday state in North India and Pakistan, 1947-1964. <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/3628> created: 2010-06-01, last updated 2010-06-01 16:28 |