The struggle for Pakistan
Subtitle: a Muslim homeland and global politics
By: Ayesha Jalal
Publisher: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 435
ISBN-13: 9780674052895
Subjects: Politics and government; Islam and politics; Democracy; Islam and state; Geopolitics; Civil-military relations; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-420) and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: 'speak, for your lips are free'; title: From minority to nation; title: Truncated state, divided nation; title: A sprawling military barrack; title: Pitfalls of martial rule; title: Toward the watershed of 1971; title: The rise and fall of populism; title: Martial rule in an Islamic garb; title: Democracy restored?; title: A geostrategic riddle; title: Entangled endgames; title: Epilogue: overcoming terror.