Creating a New Medina
Creating a New Medina

Author: Venkat Dhulipala

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-02-09

Total Pages: 553

ISBN-13: 1107052122

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This book challenges the fundamental assumptions regarding the foundations of Pakistani nationalism during colonial rule in India.

The Pakistan Paradox
The Pakistan Paradox

Author: Christophe Jaffrelot

Publisher: Random House India

Published: 2016-06-16

Total Pages: 525

ISBN-13: 8184007078

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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 Idea of Pakistan
The Idea of Pakistan

Author: Stephen P. Cohen

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2004-09-21

Total Pages: 504

ISBN-13: 9780815797616

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In recent years Pakistan has emerged as a strategic player on the world stage—both as a potential rogue state armed with nuclear weapons and as an American ally in the war against terrorism. But our understanding of this country is superficial. To probe beyond the headlines, Stephen Cohen, author of the prize-winning India: Emerging Power, offers a panoramic portrait of this complex country—from its origins as a homeland for Indian Muslims to a militarydominated state that has experienced uneven economic growth, political chaos, sectarian violence, and several nuclear crises with its much larger neighbor, India. Pakistan's future is uncertain. Can it fulfill its promise of joining the community of nations as a moderate Islamic state, at peace with its neighbors, or could it dissolve completely into a failed state, spewing out terrorists and nuclear weapons in several directions? The Idea of Pakistan will be an essential tool for understanding this critically important country.

Pan-Islam in British Indian Politics
Pan-Islam in British Indian Politics

Author: M. Naeem Qureshi

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 572

ISBN-13: 9789004113718

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This book deals with the Khilafat movement (1918-1924) in British India, which aimed at mobilizing pan-Islam for saving Ottoman Turkey from dismemberment and securing political reforms for India. It also examines the gradual transition of Muslim politics from pan-Islam to territorial nationalism.

Boundaries of Belonging
Boundaries of Belonging

Author: Sarah Ansari

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-10-17

Total Pages: 335

ISBN-13: 1107196051

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Explores citizenship, rights and belonging in post-Independence South Asia, examining the long-term impact of the 1947 Partition.

The Frontier Gandhi
The Frontier Gandhi

Author: Muhammad Soaleh Korejo

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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On the life of Abdul Ghaffar Khan, 1891-1988, prominent Pushtun political leader.

Making Sense of Pakistan
Making Sense of Pakistan

Author: Farzana Shaikh

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018-11-08

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 0190929111

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Pakistan's transformation from supposed model of Muslim enlightenment to a state now threatened by an Islamist takeover has been remarkable. Many account for the change by pointing to Pakistan's controversial partnership with the United States since 9/11; others see it as a consequence of Pakistan's long history of authoritarian rule, which has marginalized liberal opinion and allowed the rise of a religious right. Farzana Shaikh argues the country's decline is rooted primarily in uncertainty about the meaning of Pakistan and the significance of 'being Pakistani'. This has pre-empted a consensus on the role of Islam in the public sphere and encouraged the spread of political Islam. It has also widened the gap between personal piety and public morality, corrupting the country's economic foundations and tearing apart its social fabric. More ominously still, it has given rise to a new and dangerous symbiosis between the country's powerful armed forces and Muslim extremists. Shaikh demonstrates how the ideology that constrained Indo-Muslim politics in the years leading to Partition in 1947 has left its mark, skillfully deploying insights from history to better understand Pakistan's troubled present.