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The State of Islam: Culture and Cold War Politics in Pakistan

Studies Pakistan through the lens of the Cold War and the War on Terror
eBook, English, uuuu
Pluto Press, uuuu
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9781783711758, 9780745329918, 1783711752, 0745329918
1076627805
Acknowledgments1. Introduction2. Consolidating the Nation-State: East Bengal and the Politics of National Culture3. Post-Partition Literary Politics: The Progressives versus the Nationalists4. Ayub Khan’s “Decade of Development” and its Cultural Vicissitudes5. From Bhutto’s Authoritarian Populism to Zia’s Military Theocracy6. The Long Shadow of Zia: Women, Minorities and the Nation-StateEpilogue: The Neo-liberal Security StateNotesReferencesIndex