Neither settler nor native: the making and unmaking of permanent minorities /
Mahmood Mandani.
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2020.
- 401 pages, 25 cm
TB4030/08 Rs.799/-
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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"--