Decolonization Presentation

Pakistan Before and After Decolonization

Byron Lin & Chathen Posanipally

Byron

Introduction

After WW2, on August 14th, 1947, Pakistan declared Independence from Britain, however many of Britains unresolved issues would be passed onto Pakistan. Objective/Goals: An effort to evaluate, investigate, and explore how decolonization carried elements of the past and how they influenced Pakistan during and after decolonization.

Byron

Political

• According to Associate Professor Dr. Aasim Sajjad Akhtar," the Anglicised gentry, composed of bougouis parties controlled the civilian and military bureaucracies (Akhtar 2)"

• Garrison State left behind by British Raj

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• Led to"continuity in the logics of colonial statecraft (Ahktar 2)" or rather systematic exploitation of East Pakistan

• Inevitable Secession of East Pakistan into Bangledesh

• Continued Border Skirmishes & wars against recipents of British Raj (Indo-Pakistan war 0f 1971)

Chethan

Economic

• Government spending dropped by a significant margin
• Real consumption rose
• Gross private investment rose

• The Cold War spawned many tensions between the two superpowers abroad and fears of Communist subversion gripped domestic politics at home.
• In the twenty years following 1945, there was a broad political consensus concerning the Cold War and anti-Communism. Usually there was bipartisan support for most US foreign policy initiatives.

Chethan

Video

Byron

The Ukrainian Genocide, or Holdomor, was a continuity of previous issues

• Surging nationalism, national liberation movements, attempts to create Ukrainian state (Ukrainian Socialist Republic)

• Peasantry rebellions due to forced collectivism

• Had the deliberate intention to destroy a part of the Ukrainian nation, the bearer of the Ukrainian code – the peasantry (Levyk 4).

• Exterminated millions of Ukrainians

• Crushed Ukrainian culture, spirit, and any attempts to nationalize

Ukranian Holdomor

(The Collector)

Call To Action

To prevent genocides from happening again be a upstanding member in your community and resolve ethnic conflicts and tell your local leaders to talk about genocides more often and understand why they happened

Works Cited

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