1st Edition
State and Nation-Building in Pakistan Beyond Islam and Security
Introduction: Themes, Theories, and Topics in the History of Religion, Violence, and Political Mobilization in Pakistan Ian Talbot 1. The Impact of the Redistribution of Partition's Evacuee Property on the Patterns of Land Ownership and Power in Pakistani Punjab in the 1950s Ilyas Chattha 2. Elections, Bureaucracy, and the Law: The Reproduction of Landed Power in Post-Colonial Punjab Hassan Javid 3. Factionalism and Indiscipline in Pakistan’s Political System Marian Mufti 4. Constructing a State: Constitutional Integration of the Princely States in Pakistan Yaqoob Khan Bangash 5. Identity Politics and Nation-Building in Pakistan: The Case of Sindhi Nationalism Sarah Ansari 6. Understanding the Insurgency in Balochistan Yunas Samad 7. A Sublime, Yet Disputed, Object of Political Ideology? Sufism in Pakistan at the Crossroads Alix Philippon 8. The Rise of Militancy among Pakistani Barelvis: The Case of the Sunni Tehrik Mujeeb Ahmad 9. Pakistan's Religious Others: Reflections on the Minority Discourse on Christians in the Punjab Tahir Kamran and Navtej K. Purewal 10. Violence and State Formation in Pakistan Gurharpal Singh
Biography
Roger D. Long is Professor of History at Eastern Michigan University, USA.
Yunas Samad is Professor of South Asian Studies at the University of Bradford, UK.
Gurharpal Singh is Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the School of Oriental and African Studies, the University of London, UK.
Ian Talbot is Professor of History and Director of Post-Graduate Research at the University of Southampton, UK, and former Chair of the British Association for South Asian Studies.
