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'Ayesha Jalal's book is an important scholarly account of ... the partition of India in 1947.' American Historical Review
Author : Ayesha Jalal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 13,33 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780521458504
'Ayesha Jalal's book is an important scholarly account of ... the partition of India in 1947.' American Historical Review
Author : Ayesha Jalal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 12,35 MB
Release : 1994-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1139935704
In 1940 the All-India Muslim League orchestrated the demand for independent Muslim states in India. Seven years later Pakistan was created amidst a communal holocaust of unprecedented proportions. Concentrating on the All-India Muslim League and its leader, Mohammed Ali Jinnah, The Sole Spokesman assesses the role of religious communalism and provincialism in shaping the movement for Pakistan.
Author : Ayesha Jalal
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,82 MB
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0674744993
Established as a homeland for India’s Muslims in 1947, Pakistan has had a tumultuous history. Beset by assassinations, coups, ethnic strife, and the breakaway of Bangladesh in 1971, the country has found itself too often contending with religious extremism and military authoritarianism. Now, in a probing biography of her native land amid the throes of global change, Ayesha Jalal provides an insider’s assessment of how this nuclear-armed Muslim nation evolved as it did and explains why its dilemmas weigh so heavily on prospects for peace in the region. “[An] important book...Ayesha Jalal has been one of the first and most reliable [Pakistani] political historians [on Pakistan]...The Struggle for Pakistan [is] her most accessible work to date...She is especially telling when she points to the lack of serious academic or political debate in Pakistan about the role of the military.” —Ahmed Rashid, New York Review of Books “[Jalal] shows that Pakistan never went off the rails; it was, moreover, never a democracy in any meaningful sense. For its entire history, a military caste and its supporters in the ruling class have formed an ‘establishment’ that defined their narrow interests as the nation’s.” —Isaac Chotiner, Wall Street Journal
Author : Ayesha Jalal
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 23,63 MB
Release : 2013-02-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0691153620
The contents of this book cover Amritsar dreams of revolution, remembering Partition, living and walking Bombay, on the postcolonial moment, Pakistan and Uncle Sam's Cold War, and much more.
Author : Ishtiaq Ahmed
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 849 pages
File Size : 33,87 MB
Release : 2020-09-11
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9353056640
Mohammad Ali Jinnah has been both celebrated and reviled for his role in the Partition of India, and the controversies surrounding his actions have only increased in the seven decades and more since his death. Ishtiaq Ahmed places Jinnah's actions under intense scrutiny to ascertain the Quaid-i-Azam's successes and failures and the meaning and significance of his legacy. Using a wealth of contemporary records and archival material, Dr Ahmed traces Jinnah's journey from Indian nationalist to Muslim communitarian, and from a Muslim nationalist to, finally, Pakistan's all-powerful head of state. How did the ambassador of Hindu-Muslim unity become the inflexible votary of the two-nation theory? Did Jinnah envision Pakistan as a theocratic state? What was his position on Gandhi and federalism? Asking these crucial questions against the backdrop of the turbulent struggle against colonialism, this book is a path-breaking examination of one of the most controversial figures of the twentieth century.
Author : Ayesha Jalal
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 28,92 MB
Release : 2009-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0674039076
Today, more than ever, jihad signifies the political opposition between Islam and the West. As the line drawn between Muslims and non-Muslims becomes more rigid, Jalal seeks to retrieve the ethical meanings of this core Islamic principle in South Asian history. Drawing on historical, legal, and literary sources, Jalal traces the intellectual itinerary of jihad through several centuries and across the territory connecting the Middle East with South Asia.
Author : Jaswant Singh
Publisher : OUP India
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 29,74 MB
Release : 2010-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195479270
The issues concerning the Partition of India in 1947 have long been debated both by Indian and Pakistani historians, but now a leader directly responsible for the Defence and Foreign Affairs of India has come forward with a historical appraisal that helps both countries come to a better understanding of the contentions between them. Jaswant Singh has not written a hagiography of Jinnah, but focused on him as a key figure in the final deliberations preceding Independence.
Author : Ayesha Jalal
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 25,11 MB
Release : 2002-01-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1134599374
Self and Sovereignty surveys the role of individual Muslim men and women within India and Pakistan from 1850 through to decolonisation and the partition period. Commencing in colonial times, this book explores and interprets the historical processes through which the perception of the Muslim individual and the community of Islam has been reconfigured over time. Self and Sovereignty examines the relationship between Islam and nationalism and the individual, regional, class and cultural differences that have shaped the discourse and politics of Muslim identity. As well as fascinating discussion of political and religious movements, culture and art, this book includes analysis of: * press, poetry and politics in late nineteenth century India * the politics of language and identity - Hindi, Urdu and Punjabi * Muslim identity, cultural differnce and nationalism * the Punjab and the politics of Union and Disunion * the creation of Pakistan Covering a period of immense upheaval and sometimes devastating violence, this work is an important and enlightening insight into the history of Muslims in South Asia.
Author : Venkat Dhulipala
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 553 pages
File Size : 25,33 MB
Release : 2015-02-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1107052122
This book challenges the fundamental assumptions regarding the foundations of Pakistani nationalism during colonial rule in India.
Author : Devendra Panigrahi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 45,57 MB
Release : 2004-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 1135768137
This title offers an examination of the circumstances surrounding India's independence from Britain and the partition of the subcontinent.