Dr. Sanjeev Kumar H.M. is currently a professor of International Relations and Global Politics at the Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, India. He has previously taught at the South Asian University (SAARC University), the University of Allahabad and the Karnatak University, Dharwad. His areas of interest include International Relations Theory, Political Theory and International Relations, Democratisation and Security in South Asia, the history of ideas in South Asia and Islamic thought and International Relations. He has authored/edited 8 books and 70 articles/book chapters, in his areas of expertise. Prof. Kumar is the author of The India Pakistan Sub-Conventional War: Democracy and Peace in South Asia and his forthcoming book is entitled Decolonizing Grand Theories: Postcolonial Ontology, Historical Sociology and Mid-Level Theories in International Relations.

• Introduction; Chapter 1: Postcolonial Predicament and the Problématique of State Security in South Asia; Chapter 2: Westphalia and Its Discontents; Chapter 3: Pakistan's Tryst with Postcolonial History and the Ontology of its State Behaviour; Chapter 4: The 1947 Cataclysm and the Making of Pakistan’s India-Centred Problematique of State Security; Chapter 5: Constructing the Threat of a Hindu India; Conclusion; Index

Dr. Sanjeev Kumar H.M. is currently a professor of International Relations and Global Politics at the Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, India. He has previously taught at the South Asian University (SAARC University), the University of Allahabad and the Karnatak University, Dharwad. His areas of interest include International Relations Theory, Political Theory and International Relations, Democratisation and Security in South Asia, the history of ideas in South Asia and Islamic thought and International Relations. He has authored/edited 8 books and 70 articles/book chapters, in his areas of expertise. Prof. Kumar is the author of The India Pakistan Sub-Conventional War: Democracy and Peace in South Asia and his forthcoming book is entitled Decolonizing Grand Theories: Postcolonial Ontology, Historical Sociology and Mid-Level Theories in International Relations.

• Introduction; Chapter 1: Postcolonial Predicament and the Problématique of State Security in South Asia; Chapter 2: Westphalia and Its Discontents; Chapter 3: Pakistan's Tryst with Postcolonial History and the Ontology of its State Behaviour; Chapter 4: The 1947 Cataclysm and the Making of Pakistan’s India-Centred Problematique of State Security; Chapter 5: Constructing the Threat of a Hindu India; Conclusion; Index

Dr. Sanjeev Kumar H.M. is currently a professor of International Relations and Global Politics at the Department of Political Science, University of Delhi, India. He has previously taught at the South Asian University (SAARC University), the University of Allahabad and the Karnatak University, Dharwad. His areas of interest include International Relations Theory, Political Theory and International Relations, Democratisation and Security in South Asia, the history of ideas in South Asia and Islamic thought and International Relations. He has authored/edited 8 books and 70 articles/book chapters, in his areas of expertise. Prof. Kumar is the author of The India Pakistan Sub-Conventional War: Democracy and Peace in South Asia and his forthcoming book is entitled Decolonizing Grand Theories: Postcolonial Ontology, Historical Sociology and Mid-Level Theories in International Relations.

• Introduction; Chapter 1: Postcolonial Predicament and the Problématique of State Security in South Asia; Chapter 2: Westphalia and Its Discontents; Chapter 3: Pakistan's Tryst with Postcolonial History and the Ontology of its State Behaviour; Chapter 4: The 1947 Cataclysm and the Making of Pakistan’s India-Centred Problematique of State Security; Chapter 5: Constructing the Threat of a Hindu India; Conclusion; Index