Tan Tai Yong: 2 books

Book cover of The Aftermath of Partition in South Asia
by Gyanesh Kudaisya, Tan Tai Yong
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2004

This book draws upon new theoretical insights and fresh bodies of data to historically reappraise partition in the light of its long aftermath. It uses a comparative approach by viewing South Asia in its totality, rather than looking at it in narrow 'national' terms. As the first book to focus on...
Book cover of The Garrison State

The Garrison State

Military, Government and Society in Colonial Punjab, 1849-1947

by Tan Tai Yong
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2005

Following the Mutiny of 1857, various factors impelled the British to turn to the province of Punjab in north-western India as the principal recruiting ground for the Indian Army. This book examines the processes by which the politics and political economy of colonial Punjab was militarised by the...
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