BERNARD WAITESVisiting Senior Research Fellow at theOpenUniversity, UK.His publications include A Class Society at War and Europe and the Third World (PalgraveMacmillan, 1999).

'A new, carefully researched and broadly cross-disciplinary synthesis of post-colonial experiences in South Asia and Africa.' - Richard Ford, Research Professor, International Development, Community, and Environment, Clark University, USA

• Introduction: Post-colonialism in Historical PerspectivePost-colonial Trajectories in South AsiaDemocracy, Economic Planning and Economic Stagnation in India: 1947 c.1975Caste in post-colonial IndiaPolitics and Economics in Independent African StatesNigeria and Congo-Zaire, 1960 – c.1975: Decolonisation, Civil War and State RecoveryNigeria and Congo-Zaire from the 1970s to Late 1990s: Regional Giants, Giant Failures?Colonialism, Post-colonialism and Ethnic Violence: the Examples of Rwanda and BurundiAngola and MozambiqueSummary and ConclusionsBibliographyIndex.

BERNARD WAITESVisiting Senior Research Fellow at theOpenUniversity, UK.His publications include A Class Society at War and Europe and the Third World (PalgraveMacmillan, 1999).

'A new, carefully researched and broadly cross-disciplinary synthesis of post-colonial experiences in South Asia and Africa.' - Richard Ford, Research Professor, International Development, Community, and Environment, Clark University, USA

• Introduction: Post-colonialism in Historical PerspectivePost-colonial Trajectories in South AsiaDemocracy, Economic Planning and Economic Stagnation in India: 1947 c.1975Caste in post-colonial IndiaPolitics and Economics in Independent African StatesNigeria and Congo-Zaire, 1960 – c.1975: Decolonisation, Civil War and State RecoveryNigeria and Congo-Zaire from the 1970s to Late 1990s: Regional Giants, Giant Failures?Colonialism, Post-colonialism and Ethnic Violence: the Examples of Rwanda and BurundiAngola and MozambiqueSummary and ConclusionsBibliographyIndex.