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    The struggle for Pakistan : a Muslim homeland and global politics / Ayesha Jalal.

    By: Jalal, Ayesha [author.]Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Description: xii, 435 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780674052895; 0674052897; 9780674979833; 0674979834Subject(s): Pakistan -- History | Pakistan -- Politics and government | Civil-military relations -- Pakistan | Democracy -- Pakistan | Islam and politics -- Pakistan | Islam and state -- Pakistan | Geopolitics -- Pakistan | Civil-military relations | Democracy | Geopolitics | Islam and politics | Islam and state | Politics and government | Pakistan | Politik | Pakistan | Islam och civila samhället | Islam och staten | Demokrati | Militären och samhället | Politik och förvaltning | GeopolitikGenre/Form: History.DDC classification: 954.9104 LOC classification: DS383.5.A2 | J338 2014Online resources: View this book online, via DawsonERA, both on- and off-campus | View this book online, via DawsonERA, both on- and off-campus
    Contents:
    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.
    Summary: 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.
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    Includes bibliographical references 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.

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