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Genre/Form: | History |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Saadia Toor |
ISBN: | 9780745329901 074532990X 9780745329918 0745329918 9781849646093 1849646090 |
OCLC Number: | 609541028 |
Description: | xii, 252 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents: | Introduction -- Consolidating the nation-state : East Bengal and the politics of national culture -- Post-partition literary politics : the Progressives versus the nationalists -- Ayub Khan's decade of development and its cultural vicissitudes -- From Bhutto's authoritarian populism to Zia's military theocracy -- The long shadow of Zia : women, minorities and the nation-state -- Epilogue : the neoliberal security state. |
Responsibility: | Saadia Toor. |
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'A deeply informed study of Pakistan's unfinished journey, marked by the historical suppression of its vibrant Left. Read it, argue over it, and be part of the journey to renew Pakistan' -- Vijay Prashad, author of the The Darker Nations, and co-editor of Dispatches from Pakistan 'Reveals a country that is nothing like the hotbed of Islamic extremism and military dictatorship we read about constantly.This book is a powerful antidote to reactionary stereotypes of Pakistan that dominate academic research and popular media' -- David Ludden, Professor of History, New York University, author of India and South Asia: A Short History Read more...

