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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
- Harvard Library