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The state of Islam : culture and cold war politics in Pakistan /
Studies Pakistan through the lens of the Cold War and the War on Terror and sheds light on the processes behind the rise of militant Islam.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Pluto Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; Indian Muslims and the Politics of Representation; Muslim Nationalism in the Political Arena; A Maimed, Mutilated and Moth-Eaten Pakistan
- Communism and Muslim Nationalism; 2. Consolidating the Nation-State: East Bengal and the Politics of National Culture; The Contradictions of Independence; The Trouble with East Bengal; Muslim Urdu Versus Hindu Bangla; The State of the Muslim League; Producing the Law-and-Order Society; One Unit and the Politics of Parity
- 3. Post-Partition Literary Politics: The Progressives versus the NationalistsThe Progressive Writers Association; The New National Question
- The Progressives Throw Down the Gauntlet; The Discourse of Loyalty; Literature, Partition and Nation-Building
- The Iron Hand in the Velvet Glove; 4. Ayub Khan's Decade of Development and its Cultural Vicissitudes; The Rise of the Establishment Writer
- Cold War Literary Trends; Managing Islam; The Anti-Ayub Movement; Anti-Communist Propaganda and the Attack on Islamic Socialism
- The Nation of Islam; The Problematics of Pakistani Culture
- 5. From Bhutto's Authoritarian Populism to Zia's Military TheocracyCozying Up to the Gulf States; Culture and Ideology Under Bhutto; A Right-Wing Movement and a Coup; Pakistan Ka Matlab Kya? Phaansi, Kore, General Zia!
- Restoring the Status Quo Ante; The Nizam-I Mustafa; Challenges to the Regime; Culture and Ideology Under Zia; Islam and the Military; 6. The Long Shadow of Zia: Women, Minorities and the Nation-State; Women and/as Property; Erasing the non-Muslim Other
- Epilogue: The Neoliberal Security State; Jithe Vekho Faujañ Ee Faujañ
- The State of Progressive Politics; Notes