What books has Mahmood Mamdani written on colonialism and nationalism and when were they published?

1. Core books that explicitly tie colonialism to nationalism

The most directly relevant titles in the sources are Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities (Harvard University Press, 2020), which argues that colonialism and nationalism were “born together” and are “two sides of the same coin” ^{[6] [9]}, and When Victims Become Killers: Colonialism, Nativism, and the Genocide in Rwanda ^[2], which connects colonial-era policies and nativist politics to mass violence in Rwanda ^[5]. Citizen and Subject ^[1] is repeatedly described as a “groundbreaking reassessment of colonial rule in Africa and its enduring aftereffects,” and is routinely cited in discussions of colonial governance, indirect rule, and the town/country political divide that shapes modern African states ^[4].

2. Publication dates and publishing houses where sources specify them

Neither Settler nor Native is given a 2020 publication date and is published by Harvard University Press ^{[9] [10]}. When Victims Become Killers is cited with a 2001 date in the Columbia profile and related coverage ^[5]. Citizen and Subject is cited in publisher material (Princeton University Press) though the specific date is not shown in the snippet set you provided; the sources identify it as an influential 20th-century book and list awards it received ^[4]. Available sources do not provide full publishing dates for every title in every citation; for Citizen and Subject the year is indicated in some snippets ^[1] but the precise citation in these search results is fragmentary ^[4].

3. Other Mamdani books that discuss colonialism, nationalism or related themes

Mamdani’s wider bibliography—cited in Columbia and other profiles—includes Saviors and Survivors: Darfur, Politics, and the War on Terror ^[11] and Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War and the Roots of Terror ^[12]; both are framed as engaging colonial legacies, Cold War politics and the geopolitics that shape postcolonial violence and identity ^{[5] [7]}. A books-listing site groups Neither Settler nor Native alongside Slow Poison and When Victims Become Killers, implying thematic overlap across his oeuvre, though it does not supply full bibliographic detail in the snippets shown ^[8].

4. Where Mamdani frames the argument: origins and consequences

In interviews and reviews, Mamdani explains his shift toward arguing that nationalism and colonialism co‑created modern political identities: he recounts questioning prior assumptions that nationalism preceded colonialism and instead posits a co-creation that produced permanent minorities and the political logic behind them ^{[13] [6]}. Reviews and academic notices echo this: Neither Settler nor Native traces the “invention of indirect rule” and links settler practices to the institutionalization of permanent minorities across cases from the U.S. reservations system to Nazi Europe and contemporary settler-colonial contexts ^{[9] [10]}.

5. Disagreements and limitations in the available reporting

Review excerpts and scholarly critiques note disagreements: some reviewers praise the originality of Neither Settler nor Native while others argue Mamdani overlooks certain literatures or forms of postcolonial violence, such as border violence and immigration restrictions ^[6]. The Jadaliyya interview indicates Mamdani himself is responding to debates within Africanist scholarship and to critics like Michael Neocosmos, showing active scholarly contestation over interpretation and method ^[13].

6. What the provided sources do not supply

The sources supplied do not present a single, complete bibliographic list with full publication years and publishers for every Mamdani book on colonialism and nationalism; for example, while several entries give years for key titles ^{[2] [11] [12] [3]} others are referenced without consistent bibliographic detail in these snippets ^{[5] [8]}. Available sources do not mention every book Mamdani has written nor provide a complete chronological bibliography in the results you provided ^{[13] [14]}.

If you want, I can compile a precise, fully sourced chronological bibliography (author, full title, year, publisher) for Mamdani’s books on colonialism and nationalism—but I’ll need either permission to run a fresh search beyond these snippets or you can provide additional source links with full publication details.