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Make all assessment of the post-colonial understanding of State.

  • UPSC 2011
  • 30 marks
  • Theories of the State

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There is no single post-colonial theory of the state, but a family of understandings sharing one premise: in Asia and Africa the modern state was imposed before the society that should have produced it, so liberal, Marxist and pluralist categories cannot simply be transplanted. Assessing them means asking what each explains and hides.

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