Saksena, P orcid.org/0000-0002-8190-9827 (2020) Building the Nation: Sovereignty and International Law in the Decolonisation of South Asia. Journal of the History of International Law. ISSN 1388-199X
Abstract
The position of the territorially sovereign nation-state as the fundamental building block of the contemporary world order has come under increasing challenge. Historians have long focused on social, cultural, economic, and technological factors to examine the constructed nature of the nation-state. In this article, I explore the role of law, and specifically the concept of sovereignty, in the creation of the unified spatial entity constituting the nation-state. I focus in particular on the decolonisation of South Asia and analyse legal arguments made in two international disputes (over Hyderabad and the river Indus) to understand the process through which the Indian nation-state came into being.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Priyasha Saksena, 2020 | doi:10.1163/15718050-12340169 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the CC BY 4.0 license |
Keywords: | sovereignty; territory; nation-state; South Asia |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Law (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 11 Mar 2020 12:23 |
Last Modified: | 05 Mar 2021 22:28 |
Status: | Published online |
Publisher: | Brill Academic Publishers |
Identification Number: | 10.1163/15718050-12340169 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:158203 |