The Pakistan Garrison State: Origins, Evolution, Consequences (1947-2011) - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Pakistan Garrison State: Origins, Evolution, Consequences (1947-2011) write by Ishtiaq Ahmed. This book was released on 2013-03-21. The Pakistan Garrison State: Origins, Evolution, Consequences (1947-2011) available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A conceptual and theoretical framework combining the notion of a post-colonial state and Harald Lasswell's concept of a garrison state is propounded to analyse the evolution of Pakistan as a fortress of Islam.
Jinnah
Jinnah - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Jinnah write by Ishtiaq Ahmed. This book was released on 2020-09-11. Jinnah available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Mohammad Ali Jinnah has been both celebrated and reviled for his role in the Partition of India, and the controversies surrounding his actions have only increased in the seven decades and more since his death. Ishtiaq Ahmed places Jinnah's actions under intense scrutiny to ascertain the Quaid-i-Azam's successes and failures and the meaning and significance of his legacy. Using a wealth of contemporary records and archival material, Dr Ahmed traces Jinnah's journey from Indian nationalist to Muslim communitarian, and from a Muslim nationalist to, finally, Pakistan's all-powerful head of state. How did the ambassador of Hindu-Muslim unity become the inflexible votary of the two-nation theory? Did Jinnah envision Pakistan as a theocratic state? What was his position on Gandhi and federalism? Asking these crucial questions against the backdrop of the turbulent struggle against colonialism, this book is a path-breaking examination of one of the most controversial figures of the twentieth century.
The Insecurity State
The Insecurity State - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Insecurity State write by Mark Condos. This book was released on 2017-08-03. The Insecurity State available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A provocative examination of how the British colonial experience in India was shaped by chronic unease, anxiety, and insecurity.
The Loss of Hindustan
The Loss of Hindustan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Loss of Hindustan write by Manan Ahmed Asif. This book was released on 2020-11-24. The Loss of Hindustan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A field-changing history explains how the subcontinent lost its political identity as the home of all religions and emerged as India, the land of the Hindus. Did South Asia have a shared regional identity prior to the arrival of Europeans in the late fifteenth century? This is a subject of heated debate in scholarly circles and contemporary political discourse. Manan Ahmed Asif argues that Pakistan, Bangladesh, and the Republic of India share a common political ancestry: they are all part of a region whose people understand themselves as Hindustani. Asif describes the idea of Hindustan, as reflected in the work of native historians from roughly 1000 CE to 1900 CE, and how that idea went missing. This makes for a radical interpretation of how India came to its contemporary political identity. Asif argues that a European understanding of India as Hindu has replaced an earlier, native understanding of India as Hindustan, a home for all faiths. Turning to the subcontinent’s medieval past, Asif uncovers a rich network of historians of Hindustan who imagined, studied, and shaped their kings, cities, and societies. Asif closely examines the most complete idea of Hindustan, elaborated by the early seventeenth century Deccan historian Firishta. His monumental work, Tarikh-i Firishta, became a major source for European philosophers and historians, such as Voltaire, Kant, Hegel, and Gibbon during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Yet Firishta’s notions of Hindustan were lost and replaced by a different idea of India that we inhabit today. The Loss of Hindustan reveals the intellectual pathways that dispensed with multicultural Hindustan and created a religiously partitioned world of today.
The Army and Democracy
The Army and Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Army and Democracy write by Aqil Shah. This book was released on 2014-04-29. The Army and Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
