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Author Jalal, Ayesha, author.

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

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2014.
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 435 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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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.
Subject Pakistan -- History.
Pakistan -- Politics and government.
Civil-military relations -- Pakistan.
Democracy -- Pakistan.
Islam and politics -- Pakistan.
Islam and state -- Pakistan.
Geopolitics -- Pakistan.
HISTORY -- Asia -- India & South Asia.
Civil-military relations. (OCoLC)fst00862889
Democracy. (OCoLC)fst00890077
Geopolitics. (OCoLC)fst00941045
Islam and politics. (OCoLC)fst00979879
Islam and state. (OCoLC)fst00979890
Politics and government (OCoLC)fst01919741
Pakistan. (OCoLC)fst01210275
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Jalal, Ayesha, author. Struggle for Pakistan 9780674052895 (DLC) 2014006379 (OCoLC)875999872
ISBN 9780674735859 (electronic bk.)
0674735854 (electronic bk.)
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