Ted Svensson is Lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden. He holds a PhD from the University of Warwick, United Kingdom. He has published articles in Global Society, Alternatives and Critical Studies on Terrorism, and he recently contributed with a chapter in the edited volume Comparative Regional Security Governance (London: Routledge, 2012). He was awarded the Political Studies Association's Lord Bryce Prize for best dissertation in International Relations and/or Comparative Politics in 2011.

• 1. Introduction  2. What (Kind of) Independence?  3. Caught in the Parallax: Partition Scholarship and the Unspeakable  4. Production of Space: Identity, Singularity and Legitimacy  5. Writing the Genre of the New: Constituting the Nation, Community and Universal Citizenship  6. Overwriting Class: Backwardness and the Mature Citizen  7. The Impossible Totality: Indian Citizenship and the Constitutive Split  8. Conclusion

Ted Svensson is Lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden. He holds a PhD from the University of Warwick, United Kingdom. He has published articles in Global Society, Alternatives and Critical Studies on Terrorism, and he recently contributed with a chapter in the edited volume Comparative Regional Security Governance (London: Routledge, 2012). He was awarded the Political Studies Association's Lord Bryce Prize for best dissertation in International Relations and/or Comparative Politics in 2011.

• 1. Introduction  2. What (Kind of) Independence?  3. Caught in the Parallax: Partition Scholarship and the Unspeakable  4. Production of Space: Identity, Singularity and Legitimacy  5. Writing the Genre of the New: Constituting the Nation, Community and Universal Citizenship  6. Overwriting Class: Backwardness and the Mature Citizen  7. The Impossible Totality: Indian Citizenship and the Constitutive Split  8. Conclusion

Ted Svensson is Lecturer at the Department of Political Science, Lund University, Sweden. He holds a PhD from the University of Warwick, United Kingdom. He has published articles in Global Society, Alternatives and Critical Studies on Terrorism, and he recently contributed with a chapter in the edited volume Comparative Regional Security Governance (London: Routledge, 2012). He was awarded the Political Studies Association's Lord Bryce Prize for best dissertation in International Relations and/or Comparative Politics in 2011.

• 1. Introduction  2. What (Kind of) Independence?  3. Caught in the Parallax: Partition Scholarship and the Unspeakable  4. Production of Space: Identity, Singularity and Legitimacy  5. Writing the Genre of the New: Constituting the Nation, Community and Universal Citizenship  6. Overwriting Class: Backwardness and the Mature Citizen  7. The Impossible Totality: Indian Citizenship and the Constitutive Split  8. Conclusion