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Revenge, Politics and Blasphemy in Pakistan (Hardcover)
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Revenge, Politics and Blasphemy in Pakistan (Hardcover)
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This fascinating book uncovers the hidden stories behind Pakistan's
fixation with blasphemy--tales of revenge, political scheming and
sovereign betrayal. Hussain's account opens in nineteenth-century
colonial Punjab and traces blasphemy killings to the present,
linking their emergence to polemic encounters between Hindu and
Muslim revivalist sects, namely the Arya Samaj and the Ahmadiyya.
It offers, for the first time, the arresting backstories to the
assassinations of Pandit Lekh Ram, a leading Hindu nationalist;
Swami Shraddhanand, an early progenitor of Hindu nationalism and
the principal advocate for converting Muslims; and Rajpal, the
Hindu publisher of a sensationalist book on the Prophet Muhammad.
'Revenge, Politics and Blasphemy in Pakistan' then maps the curious
afterlives of these killings, illuminating the most critical
moments in Pakistan's history: 1953, when outraged protestors
smashed stores owned by religious minorities, triggering the
country's first state of emergency; 1974, when Islamist parties
pressured Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto to put blasphemy on the
constitutional agenda; 1984, when Zia-ul-Haq transformed Pakistan
according to his Islamist vision, which included more severe
punishments for blasphemy; and the twenty-first century, when
digital media has dramatically increased the visibility of
blasphemy killings, prompting political parties to demonstrate
their commitment to the cause.
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