The Idea Of Pakistan

Author : Stephen P. Cohen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2004-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0815797613

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The Idea of Pakistan by Stephen P. Cohen Pdf

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.

Author : Stephen P. Cohen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815721819

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The Future of Pakistan by Stephen P. Cohen Pdf

With each passing day, Pakistan becomes an even more crucial player in world affairs. Home of the world's second-largest Muslim population, epicenter of the global jihad, location of perhaps the planet's most dangerous borderlands, and armed with nuclear weapons, this South Asian nation will go a long way toward determining what the world looks like ten years from now. The Future of Pakistan presents and evaluates several scenarios for how the country will develop, evolve, and act in the near future, as well as the geopolitical implications of each. Led by renowned South Asia expert Stephen P. Cohen, a team of authoritative contributors looks at several pieces of the Pakistan puzzle. The book begins with Cohen's broad yet detailed overview of Pakistan, placing it within the context of current-day geopolitics and international economics. Cohen's piece is then followed by a number of shorter, more tightly focused essays addressing more specific issues of concern. Cohen's fellow contributors hail from America, Europe, India, and Pakistan itself, giving the book a uniquely international and comparative perspective. They address critical factors such as the role and impact of radical groups and militants, developments in specific key regions such as Punjab and the rugged frontier with Afghanistan, and the influence of—and interactions with—India, Pakistan's archrival since birth. The book also breaks down relations with other international powers such as China and the United States. The all-important military and internal security apparatus come under scrutiny, as do rapidly morphing social and gender issues. Political and party developments are examined along with the often amorphous division of power between Islamabad and the nation's regions and local powers. Uncertainty about Pakistan's trajectory persists. The Future of Pakistan helps us understand the current circumstances, the relevant actors and their motivation, the crit

Author : Faisal Devji
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849042765

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Muslim Zion by Faisal Devji Pdf

Originally published: London: C.Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 2013.

Author : Ali Usman Qasmi,Megan Eaton Robb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107166639

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Muslims against the Muslim League by Ali Usman Qasmi,Megan Eaton Robb Pdf

"Discusses the dynamics of the Indian freedom movement during the 1940s from the perspective of those Muslim leaders and political parties who opposed the idea of a separate state for South Asian Muslims, or whose primary engagement with Muslim League activities treated separatism as marginal to their political agenda"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Ayesha Jalal
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674744998

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The Struggle for Pakistan by Ayesha Jalal Pdf

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

Author : Venkat Dhulipala
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107052123

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Creating a New Medina by Venkat Dhulipala Pdf

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

Author : Farzana Shaikh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190929114

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Making Sense of Pakistan by Farzana Shaikh Pdf

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.

Author : Tilak Devasher
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-06-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9789352779345

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Pakistan by Tilak Devasher Pdf

Fascinating vignettes about the men and woman who ruled PakistanWhat did Muhammad Ali Jinnah say when he received a royal salute from the last British regiment about to leave Pakistan? Did Ayub Khan consider turning Pakistan into a monarchy? Why was Yahya Khan so confident that the 1970 elections would return a hung parliament? What did Zulfikar Ali Bhutto say when the Pakistan Army launched a brutal crackdown in March 1971? How did Zia-ul-Haq get Bhutto to appoint him the army chief? In 2007, did Benazir Bhutto misread the extent of American support for her return to Pakistan? Had Pervez Musharraf and Nawaz Sharif agreed to a pull-out from Kargil even before the latter went to meet President Clinton in July 1999? Backed by meticulous research, the second book from Tilak Devasher, author of Pakistan: Courting the Abyss, provides enthralling insights into the lives and times of the leaders of Pakistan over the seven decades of the nation's existence. Anecdotal and engrossing, Pakistan: At the Helm presents a human side to the country's political history for anyone who is curious about the inner workings of its corridors of power.

Author : Anand K. Verma
Publisher : Lancer Publishers
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : India
ISBN : 8170622875

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Reassessing Pakistan by Anand K. Verma Pdf

This Book Debunks The Popular Notion That The Two-Nation Theory Was At The Very Roots Of The Concept Of Pakistan.

Author : Madiha Afzal
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815729464

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Pakistan Under Siege by Madiha Afzal Pdf

Over the last fifteen years, Pakistan has come to be defined exclusively in terms of its struggle with terror. But are ordinary Pakistanis extremists? And what explains how Pakistanis think? Much of the current work on extremism in Pakistan tends to study extremist trends in the country from a detached position—a top-down security perspective, that renders a one-dimensional picture of what is at its heart a complex, richly textured country of 200 million people. In this book, using rigorous analysis of survey data, in-depth interviews in schools and universities in Pakistan, historical narrative reporting, and her own intuitive understanding of the country, Madiha Afzal gives the full picture of Pakistan’s relationship with extremism. The author lays out Pakistanis’ own views on terrorist groups, on jihad, on religious minorities and non-Muslims, on America, and on their place in the world. The views are not radical at first glance, but are riddled with conspiracy theories. Afzal explains how the two pillars that define the Pakistani state—Islam and a paranoia about India—have led to a regressive form of Islamization in Pakistan’s narratives, laws, and curricula. These, in turn, have shaped its citizens’ attitudes. Afzal traces this outlook to Pakistan’s unique and tortured birth. She examines the rhetoric and the strategic actions of three actors in Pakistani politics—the military, the civilian governments, and the Islamist parties—and their relationships with militant groups. She shows how regressive Pakistani laws instituted in the 1980s worsened citizen attitudes and led to vigilante and mob violence. The author also explains that the educational regime has become a vital element in shaping citizens’ thinking. How many years one attends school, whether the school is public, private, or a madrassa, and what curricula is followed all affect Pakistanis’ attitudes about terrorism and the rest of the world. In the end, Afzal suggests how this beleaguered nation—one with seemingly insurmountable problems in governance and education—can change course.

Author : Christophe Jaffrelot
Publisher : Random House India
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9788184007077

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The Pakistan Paradox by Christophe Jaffrelot Pdf

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.

Author : Khursheed Kamal Aziz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 956 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Pakistan movement
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025329009

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A History of the Idea of Pakistan by Khursheed Kamal Aziz Pdf

Author : Stephen P. Cohen
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004-05-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815798393

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India by Stephen P. Cohen Pdf

For years, Americans have seen India as a giant but inept state. That negative image is now obsolete. After a decade of drift and uncertainty, India is taking its expected place as one of the three major states of Asia. Its pluralist, secular democracy has allowed the rise of hitherto deprived castes and ethnic communities. Economic liberalization is gathering steam, with six percent annual growth and annual exports in excess of $30 billion. India also has a modest capacity to project military power. The country will soon have a two-carrier navy and it is developing a nuclear-armed missile capable of reaching all of Asia. This landmark book provides the first comprehensive assessment of India as a political and strategic power since India's nuclear tests, its 1999 war with Pakistan, and its breakthrough economic achievements. Stephen P. Cohen examines the domestic and international causes of India's "emergence," he discusses the way social structure and tradition shape Delhi's perceptions of the world, and he explores India's relations with neighboring Pakistan and China, as well as the United States. Cohen argues that American policy needs to be adjusted to cope with a rising India—and that a relationship well short of alliance, but far more intimate than in the past, is appropriate for both countries.

Author : Avtar Bhasin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789386826213

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India and Pakistan by Avtar Bhasin Pdf

The book is based on archival material accessed for the first time from the Nehru Papers and the archives of the Ministry of External Affairs, Government of India. It provides readers with a new perspective on a great many significant issues of the sub-continent's India–Pakistan discourse. The Partition was an opportunity for the two nations to go their own ways and build egalitarian societies, complementing each other. Unfortunately, unable to transcend old animosities, Pakistan added new ones to construct the bogey of Indian hegemony. This was diametrically opposed to India's determination to steer clear of the past and pursue a positive policy towards Pakistan, since it shared centuries of historical, economic, social and cultural ties with its people. For India, the separation was like a family dividing its assets by mutual agreement of its members and living peacefully thereafter. For Pakistan, however, the separation was akin to a permanent breakup of a family, which was accompanied by the nursing of grievances and the harbouring of adversarial feelings. It is this mental make-up dictating the Indo–Pakistan narrative in the years following the Partition, which the book succinctly captures.

Author : Stephen P. Cohen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2002-10-01
Category : Political science
ISBN : 0195794222

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The Pakistan Army by Stephen P. Cohen Pdf

Pakistan Army is the first comprehensive study of one of the Third World's most important armies. Professor Cohen has updated this well-known work through a Preface to the Urdu edition (2001)