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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

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

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Harvard Library