Title Purifying the land of the pure : a history of Pakistan's religious minorities / Farahnaz Ispahani.

Publication Info.

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2017]

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Location	Call No.	Status
Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department	954.91 ISPAHANI	Check Shelf

Description	v, 216 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-206) and index.
Summary	In Purifying the Land of the Pure, Farahnaz Ispahani analyzes Pakistan's policies towards its religious minority populations, both Muslim and non-Muslim, since independence in 1947.
Contents	Demography, state and religion -- Ideological state -- Militarism and national identity -- Balancing act : 1972-1977 -- Islamization : 1977-1988 -- Global jihad and Pakistan's minorities, 1988-1999 -- Militancy, terrorism and sectarianism -- 1999 onwards.
Subject	Religious minorities -- Pakistan.
	Pakistan -- Politics and government -- 1971-1988.
	Pakistan -- Politics and government -- 1988-
	Politics and government. (OCoLC)fst01919741
	Religious minorities. (OCoLC)fst01094193
	Pakistan. (OCoLC)fst01210275
Chronological Term	Since 1971
Subject	(DE-588)4140292-3 (DE-603)085537543 Religiöse Minderheit
	(DE-588)4046514-7 (DE-603)085129836 Politik
	(DE-588)4027743-4 (DE-603)085071021 Islam
	(DE-588)4137178-1 (DE-603)085513024 Fundamentalismus
	(DE-588)4075812-6 (DE-603)085214779 Pakistan
Related To	Originally published as: Ispahani, Farahnaz. Purifying the land of the pure. Noida : HarperCollins Publishers India, 2015 9789351775522 (DLC) 2015357488 (OCoLC)933506014
ISBN	9780190621650 (hardcover : alk. paper)
	0190621656
	9780190621674 (epub)

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