The Struggle for Pakistan: A Muslim Homeland and Global PoliticsHarvard University Press, 2014 M09 16 - 448 pages 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. |
Contents
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Chapter 2 Truncated State Divided Nation | 40 |
Chapter 3 A Sprawling Military Barrack | 61 |
Chapter 4 Pitfalls of Martial Rule | 98 |
Chapter 5 Toward the Watershed of 1971 | 142 |
Chapter 6 The Rise and Fall of Populism | 177 |
Chapter 7 Martial Rule in Islamic Garb | 216 |
Chapter 8 Democracy Restored? | 259 |
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