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State and Nation-Building in Pakistan - Beyond Islam and Security (Hardcover)
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State and Nation-Building in Pakistan - Beyond Islam and Security (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
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Religion, violence, and ethnicity are all intertwined in the
history of Pakistan. The entrenchment of landed interests,
operationalized through violence, ethnic identity, and power
through successive regimes has created a system of 'authoritarian
clientalism.' This book offers comparative, historicist, and
multidisciplinary views on the role of identity politics in the
development of Pakistan. Bringing together perspectives on the
dynamics of state-building, the book provides insights into
contemporary processes of national contestation which are crucially
affected by their treatment in the world media, and by the
reactions they elicit within an increasingly globalised polity. It
investigates the resilience of landed elites to political and
social change, and, in the years after partition, looks at the
impact on land holdings of population transfer. It goes on to
discuss religious identities and their role in both the
construction of national identity and in the development of
sectarianism. The book highlights how ethnicity and identity
politics are an enduring marker in Pakistani politics, and why they
are increasingly powerful and influential. An insightful collection
on a range of perspectives on the dynamics of identity politics and
the nation-state, this book on Pakistan will be a useful
contribution to South Asian Politics, South Asian History, and
Islamic Studies.
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