Patchwork States

Adnan Naseemullah is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at King's College London. He is the author of Development after Statism (2017).

• Part I. Framework; 1. Introduction; 2. Political Order State Formation, and Typologizing Colonial Rule; Part II. Historical Roots; 3. The Making of Patchwork Authority; 4. The Patchwork Nature of Colonial Governance; 5. Post-Colonial Patchwork States; Part III. Contemporary Consequences; 6. Patchwork States and Sovereignty: Explaining Political Violence; 7. Patchwork States and Patronage: Explaining Electoral Competition; 8. Patchwork States and Development; Part IV. Conclusions; 9. Researching the Legacies of Colonial Rule; 10. Patchwork States in Comparative Perspective.

'This remarkable book sets the agenda for a new comparative politics focused on the territorially uneven causes and consequences of colonial state penetration and state-building within countries, and across regions such as South Asia (here, India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh). Naseemullah integrates three distinct stands in the study comparative politics and political economy of development - violence, electoral competition, and economic development - showing that institutional differentiation traceable to colonial rule goes far in explaining territorial variation in the outcomes that have been the focus of scholars for decades. An overarching explanatory framework makes it possible to ask a host of new questions about the contours and determinants of cross- and subnational variation in patterns of political and economic development. It is groundbreaking work that lays out a research design, hypotheses, and theoretical insights that can travel far beyond South Asia.' Catherine Boone, Professor of Comparative Politics, London School of Economics