The promise of power
Subtitle: the origins of democracy in India and autocracy in Pakistan
By: Maya Tudor
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 240
ISBN-13: 9781107032965
Subjects: Politics and government; Authoritarianism; Democracy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. How India institutionalised democracy & Pakistan promoted autocracy; title: 2. The social origins of pro- and anti-democratic movements (1885-1919); title: 3. Imagining and institutionalizing new nations (1919-1947); title: 4. Organizing alliances (1919-1947); title: 5. Freedom at midnight and divergent democracies (1947-1958); title: 6. The institutionalization of alliances in India, Pakistan, and beyond.