This work offers a refreshingly different perspective on Pakistan -
it documents the evolution of Pakistan's structure of power over
the past four decades. In particular, how the military dictatorship
headed by General Zia ul Haq (1977-1988) - whose rule has been
almost exclusively associated with a narrow agenda of Islamisation
- transformed the political field through a combination of coercion
and consent-production. The Zia regime inculcated within the
society at large a 'common sense' privileging the cultivation of
patronage ties and the concurrent demeaning of counter-hegemonic
political practices which had threatened the structure of power in
the decade before the military coup in 1977. The book meticulously
demonstrates how the politics of common sense has been consolidated
in the past three decades through the agency of emergent social
forces such as traders and merchants as well as the
religio-political organisations that gained in influence during the
1980s.
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