%0 Journal Article
%T Jayaprakash Narayan and the politics of reconciliation for the postcolonial state and its imperial fragments
%A Lydia Walker
%J The Indian Economic & Social History Review
%@ 0973-0893
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/0019464619835659
%X Jayaprakash (JP) Narayan was an activist, politician and political thinker who attempted to use peace negotiations on India¡¯s borders to renegotiate the postcolonial Indian state. This article tracks JP¡¯s efforts to find non-national vehicles for regional nationalist demands through his positions on the contentious political questions of a Nagaland in India, and a Tibet in China. It locates JP within the Anglophone international peace movement that transitioned from support of Indian independence to a critique of the state violence of the Indian government, and traces JP¡¯s thinking and work in support of some degree of autonomy for Tibet and Nagaland. Finally, this article connects these projects to JP¡¯s non-statist critique of Indian state sovereignty, arguing that through a more decentralised and inclusively organised India, JP sought to re-organise what decolonisation had wrought
%K Jayaprakash Narayan
%K nationalism
%K decolonisation
%K Nagaland
%K Tibet
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0019464619835659