The Struggle For Pakistan A Muslim Homeland And Global Politics

Author : Ayesha Jalal
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 55,6 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 : Ayesha Jalal
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674052895

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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 : Ayesha Jalal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0674985621

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The Struggle for Pakistan - a Muslim Homeland and Global Politics by Ayesha Jalal Pdf

Author : Aqil Shah
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674728936

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The Army and Democracy by Aqil Shah Pdf

In sharp contrast to neighboring India, the Muslim nation of Pakistan has been ruled by its military for over three decades. The Army and Democracy identifies steps for reforming Pakistan’s armed forces and reducing its interference in politics, and sees lessons for fragile democracies striving to bring the military under civilian control.

Author : Faisal Devji
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : India
ISBN : 9781849042765

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Muslim Zion by Faisal Devji Pdf

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

Author : Ayesha Jalal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0521051843

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The State of Martial Rule by Ayesha Jalal Pdf

When the British dismantled their Raj in 1947 India, as the 'successor' state, inherited the colonial unitary central apparatus whereas Pakistan, as the 'seceding' state, had no semblance of a central government. In The State of Martial Rule Ayesha Jalal analyses the dialectic between state construction and political processes in Pakistan in the first decade of the country's independence and convincingly demonstrates how the imperatives of the international system in the 'cold war' era combined with regional and domestic factors to mould the structure of the Pakistani state. The study concludes by placing the state and political developments in Pakistan since 1958 within a conceptual framework. It will be read by historians of South Asia and by students and specialists of comparative politics and political economy.

Author : Sarah Fatima Waheed
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108834520

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Hidden Histories of Pakistan by Sarah Fatima Waheed Pdf

Examines the role of progressive Muslim intellectuals in the Pakistan movement through the lens of censorship.

Author : Ayesha Jalal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521458501

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The Sole Spokesman by Ayesha Jalal Pdf

'Ayesha Jalal's book is an important scholarly account of ... the partition of India in 1947.' American Historical Review

Author : Muhammad Qasim Zaman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691210735

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Islam in Pakistan by Muhammad Qasim Zaman Pdf

The first book to explore the modern history of Islam in South Asia The first modern state to be founded in the name of Islam, Pakistan was the largest Muslim country in the world at the time of its establishment in 1947. Today it is the second-most populous, after Indonesia. Islam in Pakistan is the first comprehensive book to explore Islam's evolution in this region over the past century and a half, from the British colonial era to the present day. Muhammad Qasim Zaman presents a rich historical account of this major Muslim nation, insights into the rise and gradual decline of Islamic modernist thought in the South Asian region, and an understanding of how Islam has fared in the contemporary world. Much attention has been given to Pakistan's role in sustaining the Afghan struggle against the Soviet occupation in the 1980s, in the growth of the Taliban in the 1990s, and in the War on Terror after 9/11. But as Zaman shows, the nation's significance in matters relating to Islam has much deeper roots. Since the late nineteenth century, South Asia has witnessed important initiatives toward rethinking core Islamic texts and traditions in the interest of their compatibility with the imperatives of modern life. Traditionalist scholars and their institutions, too, have had a prominent presence in the region, as have Islamism and Sufism. Pakistan did not merely inherit these and other aspects of Islam. Rather, it has been and remains a site of intense contestation over Islam's public place, meaning, and interpretation. Examining how facets of Islam have been pivotal in Pakistani history, Islam in Pakistan offers sweeping perspectives on what constitutes an Islamic state.

Author : Ziad Haider
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780817910860

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The Ideological Struggle for Pakistan by Ziad Haider Pdf

This assessment of the struggle for Pakistan's identity, from its birth in 1947 to the present day, provides a political and cultural understanding of the role and use of Islam in its evolution. The author, a Pakistani scholar, shows how Pakistan's viability as a state depends in large part on its ability to develop a new and progressive Islamic narrative.

Author : Venkat Dhulipala
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107052123

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Creating a New Medina by Venkat Dhulipala Pdf

"Discusses the fundamental assumptions regarding the foundations of Pakistani nationalism as well as our current understanding of the roots of its postcolonial identity crisis"--

Author : Ian Talbot
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781787387898

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Pakistan by Ian Talbot Pdf

If Pakistan is to preserve all that is good about its country — the generosity and hospitality of its people, the dynamism of its youth — it must face the deterioration of its social and political institutions. Sidestepping easy headlines to identify Pakistan’s true dangers, this volume revisits the major turning points and trends of Pakistani history over the past six decades, focusing on the increasing entrenchment of Pakistan’s army in its political and economic arenas; the complex role of Islam in public life; the tensions between central and local identities and democratic impulses; and the effect of geopolitical influences on domestic policy and development. While Ian Talbot’s study centres on Pakistan’s many failures — the collapse of stable governance, the drop in positive political and economic development, and, most of all, the unrealised goal of securing a separate Muslim state — his book unequivocally affirms the country’s potential for a positive reawakening. These failures were not preordained, Talbot argues, and such a fatalistic reading does not respect the complexity of historical events, individual actors, and the state’s own rich resources. While he acknowledges grave crises still lie ahead for Pakistan, Talbot’s sensitive historical approach makes it clear that favourable opportunities still remain for Pakistan, in which the state has a chance to reclaim its priorities and institutions and reestablish political and economic sustainability.

Author : Farahnaz Ispahani
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190621650

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Purifying the Land of the Pure by Farahnaz Ispahani Pdf

In Purifying the Land of the Pure, Farahnaz Ispahani analyzes Pakistan's policies towards its religious minority populations, both Muslim and non-Muslim, since independence in 1947.

Author : Ayesha Jalal
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780691153629

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The Pity of Partition by Ayesha Jalal Pdf

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.

Author : Imran Khan
Publisher : Random House
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781446438244

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Pakistan by Imran Khan Pdf

"A must-read for anyone interested in the intrigue of politics in the most dangerous country on earth" (The Sunday Times) Read the unique insider's view of a country unfamiliar to a Western audience, seen through the eyes of the man set to become Pakistan's new Prime Minister. Born only five years after Pakistan was created in 1947, Imran Khan has lived his country's history. Undermined by a ruling elite, and unable to protect its people from the carnage of regular bombings from terrorists and its own ally, America, Pakistan has for years suffered from instability. Now Imran Khan and his own political party, the Tehreek-e-Insaf, offer a real political alternative for the people of Pakistan at a time when tension between Pakistan's government and the powerful military has reached dangerous new levels. How did this flashpoint of volatility and injustice come about? Pakistan: A Personal History provides a unique insider's view of a country unfamiliar to a western audience. Woven into this history we see how Imran Khan's personal life - his happy childhood in Lahore, his Oxford education, his extraordinary cricketing career, his marriage to Jemima Goldsmith, his mother's influence and that of his Islamic faith - inform both the historical narrativeandhis current philanthropic and political activities. It is at once absorbing and insightful, casting fresh light upon a country whose culture he believes is largely misunderstood by the West.