The processes of establishing new national orders in the aftermath of the Partition entailed that minorities - Hindus in Pakistan and Muslims in India - had to re-negotiate their identities as rightful citizens. This book focuses on the partition of Bengal, its effects on minori…
Studies Pakistan through the lens of the Cold War and the War on Terror and sheds light on the processes behind the rise of militant Islam. The state of Islam tells the story of Pakistan through the lens of the Cold War, and more recently, the War on Terror, to shed light on th…
Introduction -- Consolidating the nation-state: East Bengal and the politics of national culture -- Post-Partition literary politics: the progressives versus the nationalists -- Ayub Khan's decade of development and its cultural vicissitudes -- From Bhutto's authoritarian populi…
"The state of Islam tells the story of Pakistan through the lens of the Cold War, and more recently, the War on Terror, to shed light on the domestic and international processes behind the rise of militant Islam. Unlike existing scholarship on nationalism, Islam and the state of…
"The state of Islam tells the story of Pakistan through the lens of the Cold War, and more recently, the War on Terror, to shed light on the domestic and international processes behind the rise of militant Islam. Unlike existing scholarship on nationalism, Islam and the state of…
