Author: Muhammad Aslam Malik
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
"Muhammad Aslam Malik, after scrutinizing primary and basic documents relating to the Pakistan Resolution, rejects all such criticism. Based on original sources, this work objectively analyses events leading to Independence. Although the theme is old, this book fills a long-felt need for a properly addressed and researched study based on new material. It is an excellent addition to modern South Asian history."--BOOK JACKET.
The Making of the Pakistan Resolution
Author: Muhammad Aslam Malik
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
"Muhammad Aslam Malik, after scrutinizing primary and basic documents relating to the Pakistan Resolution, rejects all such criticism. Based on original sources, this work objectively analyses events leading to Independence. Although the theme is old, this book fills a long-felt need for a properly addressed and researched study based on new material. It is an excellent addition to modern South Asian history."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
"Muhammad Aslam Malik, after scrutinizing primary and basic documents relating to the Pakistan Resolution, rejects all such criticism. Based on original sources, this work objectively analyses events leading to Independence. Although the theme is old, this book fills a long-felt need for a properly addressed and researched study based on new material. It is an excellent addition to modern South Asian history."--BOOK JACKET.
The Pakistan Paradox
Author: Christophe Jaffrelot
Publisher: Random House India
ISBN: 8184007078
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
The idea of Pakistan stands riddled with tensions. Initiated by a small group of select Urdu-speaking Muslims who envisioned a unified Islamic state, today Pakistan suffers the divisive forces of various separatist movements and religious fundamentalism. A small entrenched elite continue to dominate the country’s corridors of power, and democratic forces and legal institutions remain weak. But despite these seemingly insurmountable problems, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan continues to endure. The Pakistan Paradox is the definitive history of democracy in Pakistan, and its survival despite ethnic strife, Islamism and deepseated elitism. This edition focuses on three kinds of tensions that are as old as Pakistan itself. The tension between the unitary definition of the nation inherited from Jinnah and centrifugal ethnic forces; between civilians and army officers who are not always in favour of or against democracy; and between the Islamists and those who define Islam only as a cultural identity marker.
Publisher: Random House India
ISBN: 8184007078
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 525
Book Description
The idea of Pakistan stands riddled with tensions. Initiated by a small group of select Urdu-speaking Muslims who envisioned a unified Islamic state, today Pakistan suffers the divisive forces of various separatist movements and religious fundamentalism. A small entrenched elite continue to dominate the country’s corridors of power, and democratic forces and legal institutions remain weak. But despite these seemingly insurmountable problems, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan continues to endure. The Pakistan Paradox is the definitive history of democracy in Pakistan, and its survival despite ethnic strife, Islamism and deepseated elitism. This edition focuses on three kinds of tensions that are as old as Pakistan itself. The tension between the unitary definition of the nation inherited from Jinnah and centrifugal ethnic forces; between civilians and army officers who are not always in favour of or against democracy; and between the Islamists and those who define Islam only as a cultural identity marker.
The Struggle for Pakistan
Author: Ayesha Jalal
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674744993
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Established as a homeland for India’s Muslims in 1947, Pakistan has had a tumultuous history. Beset by assassinations, coups, ethnic strife, and the breakaway of Bangladesh in 1971, the country has found itself too often contending with religious extremism and military authoritarianism. Now, in a probing biography of her native land amid the throes of global change, Ayesha Jalal provides an insider’s assessment of how this nuclear-armed Muslim nation evolved as it did and explains why its dilemmas weigh so heavily on prospects for peace in the region. “[An] important book...Ayesha Jalal has been one of the first and most reliable [Pakistani] political historians [on Pakistan]...The Struggle for Pakistan [is] her most accessible work to date...She is especially telling when she points to the lack of serious academic or political debate in Pakistan about the role of the military.” —Ahmed Rashid, New York Review of Books “[Jalal] shows that Pakistan never went off the rails; it was, moreover, never a democracy in any meaningful sense. For its entire history, a military caste and its supporters in the ruling class have formed an ‘establishment’ that defined their narrow interests as the nation’s.” —Isaac Chotiner, Wall Street Journal
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674744993
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Established as a homeland for India’s Muslims in 1947, Pakistan has had a tumultuous history. Beset by assassinations, coups, ethnic strife, and the breakaway of Bangladesh in 1971, the country has found itself too often contending with religious extremism and military authoritarianism. Now, in a probing biography of her native land amid the throes of global change, Ayesha Jalal provides an insider’s assessment of how this nuclear-armed Muslim nation evolved as it did and explains why its dilemmas weigh so heavily on prospects for peace in the region. “[An] important book...Ayesha Jalal has been one of the first and most reliable [Pakistani] political historians [on Pakistan]...The Struggle for Pakistan [is] her most accessible work to date...She is especially telling when she points to the lack of serious academic or political debate in Pakistan about the role of the military.” —Ahmed Rashid, New York Review of Books “[Jalal] shows that Pakistan never went off the rails; it was, moreover, never a democracy in any meaningful sense. For its entire history, a military caste and its supporters in the ruling class have formed an ‘establishment’ that defined their narrow interests as the nation’s.” —Isaac Chotiner, Wall Street Journal
Creating a New Medina
Author: Venkat Dhulipala
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107052122
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
This book challenges the fundamental assumptions regarding the foundations of Pakistani nationalism during colonial rule in India.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107052122
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 553
Book Description
This book challenges the fundamental assumptions regarding the foundations of Pakistani nationalism during colonial rule in India.
The Great Partition
Author: Yasmin Khan
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300233647
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
A reappraisal of the tumultuous Partition and how it ignited long-standing animosities between India and Pakistan This new edition of Yasmin Khan’s reappraisal of the tumultuous India-Pakistan Partition features an introduction reflecting on the latest research and on ways in which commemoration of the Partition has changed, and considers the Partition in light of the current refugee crisis. Reviews of the first edition: “A riveting book on this terrible story.”—Economist “Unsparing. . . . Provocative and painful.”—Times (London) “Many histories of Partition focus solely on the elite policy makers. Yasmin Khan’s empathetic account gives a great insight into the hopes, dreams, and fears of the millions affected by it.”—Owen Bennett Jones, BBC
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300233647
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
A reappraisal of the tumultuous Partition and how it ignited long-standing animosities between India and Pakistan This new edition of Yasmin Khan’s reappraisal of the tumultuous India-Pakistan Partition features an introduction reflecting on the latest research and on ways in which commemoration of the Partition has changed, and considers the Partition in light of the current refugee crisis. Reviews of the first edition: “A riveting book on this terrible story.”—Economist “Unsparing. . . . Provocative and painful.”—Times (London) “Many histories of Partition focus solely on the elite policy makers. Yasmin Khan’s empathetic account gives a great insight into the hopes, dreams, and fears of the millions affected by it.”—Owen Bennett Jones, BBC
India and Pakistan
Author: Selig S. Harrison
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521645850
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Leading specialists on South Asia assess the progress and problems of India and Pakistan, their foreign and defense policies, and their relations with the United States.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521645850
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
Leading specialists on South Asia assess the progress and problems of India and Pakistan, their foreign and defense policies, and their relations with the United States.
Pakistan Or Partition of India
Author: Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 530
Book Description
The Pity of Partition
Author: Ayesha Jalal
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691153620
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The contents of this book cover Amritsar dreams of revolution, remembering Partition, living and walking Bombay, on the postcolonial moment, Pakistan and Uncle Sam's Cold War, and much more.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691153620
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
The contents of this book cover Amritsar dreams of revolution, remembering Partition, living and walking Bombay, on the postcolonial moment, Pakistan and Uncle Sam's Cold War, and much more.
The Making of Pakistan
Author: Khursheed Kamal Aziz
Publisher: Sang-E-Meel Publication
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Publisher: Sang-E-Meel Publication
ISBN:
Category : India
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Shooting for a Century
Author: Stephen P. Cohen
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 0815721862
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
The India-Pakistan rivalry is one of the five percent of international conflicts that has been labeled as intractable. Cohen draws on his varied experiences in South Asia as he develops a comprehensive theory of why the dispute is intractable and suggests ways in which it may be ameliorated.
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
ISBN: 0815721862
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 259
Book Description
The India-Pakistan rivalry is one of the five percent of international conflicts that has been labeled as intractable. Cohen draws on his varied experiences in South Asia as he develops a comprehensive theory of why the dispute is intractable and suggests ways in which it may be ameliorated.