POLI 322 Study Guide - Uzair, Hindi Belt

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 322
• Professor: Narendra Subramanian

Document Summary

India and pakistan: interpreting the divergence of two political trajectories (by christophe jafferlot) By analyzing the impact of historical legacies on the formation of institutions in india and pakistan, we can explain the puzzling difference in the political trajectories of the two countries. Author proposes five hypothesis to analyze the above mentioned divergence: Colonial legacy and its impact on the political trajectory: Different regions of the subcontinent were administered in a different fashion by the british raj. Overall, the main story is of a gradual devolution of power to the indians. Nwfp and baluchistan (all three of which later became part of pakistan) were administered differently than the rest of india. All three suffered from a lack of democratic practices, high militarism (observed more in punjab and nwfp than baluchistan) and a political culture based on the lines of paternalism and patronage. Punjabis and pashtuns = martial races of the empire implications for post-independence pakistan.