The struggle for Pakistan : a Muslim homeland and global politics /
Jalal, Ayesha,
The struggle for Pakistan : a Muslim homeland and global politics / Ayesha Jalal. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (xii, 435 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
Prologue: 'speak, for your lips are free' -- From minority to nation -- Truncated state, divided nation -- A sprawling military barrack -- Pitfalls of martial rule -- Toward the watershed of 1971 -- The rise and fall of populism -- Martial rule in an Islamic garb -- Democracy restored? -- A geostrategic riddle -- Entangled endgames -- Epilogue: overcoming terror.
In a probing biography of her native land, Ayesha Jalal provides a unique insider's assessment of how the nuclear-armed Muslim nation of Pakistan evolved into a country besieged by military domination and militant religious extremism, and explains why its dilemmas weigh so heavily on prospects for peace in the region.
9780674735859
Civil-military relations--Pakistan.
Democracy--Pakistan.
Islam and politics--Pakistan.
Islam and state--Pakistan.
Geopolitics--Pakistan.
Electronic Books.
DS383 / .S778 2014
The struggle for Pakistan : a Muslim homeland and global politics / Ayesha Jalal. - Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (xii, 435 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographies and index.
Prologue: 'speak, for your lips are free' -- From minority to nation -- Truncated state, divided nation -- A sprawling military barrack -- Pitfalls of martial rule -- Toward the watershed of 1971 -- The rise and fall of populism -- Martial rule in an Islamic garb -- Democracy restored? -- A geostrategic riddle -- Entangled endgames -- Epilogue: overcoming terror.
In a probing biography of her native land, Ayesha Jalal provides a unique insider's assessment of how the nuclear-armed Muslim nation of Pakistan evolved into a country besieged by military domination and militant religious extremism, and explains why its dilemmas weigh so heavily on prospects for peace in the region.
9780674735859
Civil-military relations--Pakistan.
Democracy--Pakistan.
Islam and politics--Pakistan.
Islam and state--Pakistan.
Geopolitics--Pakistan.
Electronic Books.
DS383 / .S778 2014