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Creating a new Medina : state power, Islam, and the quest for Pakistan in late colonial North India / Venkat Dhulipala.

Title
Creating a new Medina : state power, Islam, and the quest for Pakistan in late colonial North India / Venkat Dhulipala.
Author
Dhulipala, Venkat.
Publication
Daryaganj, Delhi : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

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Description
xxii, 530 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm
Summary
"Discusses the fundamental assumptions regarding the foundations of Pakistani nationalism as well as our current understanding of the roots of its postcolonial identity crisis"--
Subject
  • All-India Muslim League > History > 20th century
  • All-India Muslim League
  • 1900 - 1999
  • Politics and government
  • Elections > Uttar Pradesh > History > 20th century
  • Pakistan movement > History
  • Nationalism > Pakistan > History > 20th century
  • Power (Social sciences) > Pakistan > History > 20th century
  • Islam and politics > Pakistan > History > 20th century
  • Postcolonialism > Pakistan > History > 20th century
  • Elections
  • Islam and politics
  • Nationalism
  • Pakistan movement
  • Postcolonialism
  • Power (Social sciences)
  • Pakistan > Politics and government > 20th century
  • India, North > Politics and government > 20th century
  • Uttar Pradesh (India) > Politics and government > 20th century
  • North India
  • India > Uttar Pradesh
  • Pakistan
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 503-518) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Nationalists', communalists' and the 1937 provincial elections -- Muslim mass contacts' and the rise of the Muslim League -- Two constitutional lawyers from Bombay and the debate over Pakistan in the public sphere -- The Muslim League and the idea of Pakistan in the United Provinces -- The Ulama at the forefront of politics : three critiques of Pakistan from the United Provinces -- Urdu press, public opinion, and the controversies over Pakistan -- Fusing Islam and state power : Shabbir Ahmad Usmani and Pakistan as the new Medina -- The referendum on Pakistan : the elections of 1945-46 -- Epilogue.
ISBN
  • 9781107052123 (hardback)
  • 1107052122 (hardback)
LCCN
^^2014018926
OCLC
  • 888164618
  • SCSB-12057351
Owning Institutions
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