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South Asian cultures of the bomb : atomic publics and the state in India and Pakistan / edited by Itty Abraham
Bib ID 4600151
Format BookBook
Description Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2009 
222 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. 
ISBN 9780253352538 (cloth : alk. paper)  0253352533 (cloth : alk. paper)  9780253220325 (pbk. : alk. paper)  0253220327 (pbk. : alk. paper) 
Full contents
  • 1. Introduction: Nuclear Power and Atomic Publics / Itty Abraham
  • 2. Fevered with Dreams of the Future: The Coming of the Atomic Age to Pakistan / Zia Mian
  • 3. India's Nuclear Enclave and the Practice of Secrecy / M. V. Ramana
  • 4. The Social Life of a Bomb: India and the Ontology of an "Overpopulated" Society / Sankaran Krishna
  • 5. Pride and Proliferation: Pakistan's Nuclear Psyche after A. Q. Khan / Ammara Durrani
  • 6. The Politics of Death: The Antinuclear Imaginary in India / Srirupa Roy
  • 7. Pakistan's Atomic Publics: Survey Results / Haider Nizamani
  • 8. Gods, Bombs, and the Social Imaginary / Raminder Kaur
  • 9. Nuclearization and Pakistani Popular Culture since 1998 / Iftikhar Dadi
  • 10. Guardians of the Nuclear Myth: Politics, Ideology, and India's Strategic Community / Karsten Frey.
 
Notes

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects Nuclear weapons - Government policy - India.  |  Nuclear weapons - Political aspects - India.  |  Nationalism - India.  |  Civil society - India.  |  Nuclear weapons - Government policy - Pakistan.  |  Nuclear weapons - Political aspects - Pakistan.  |  Nationalism - Pakistan.  |  Civil society - Pakistan.  |  India - Military policy.  |  Pakistan - Military policy.
Other authors/contributors Abraham, Itty, 1960-

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