Pakistan at the Millennium

by Kennedy, Charles; McNeil, Kathleen; Ernst, Carl; Gilmartin, David

• ISBN13: 9780195797763
• ISBN10: 0195797760
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-05-29
• Publisher: Oxford Univ Pr

Summary

This collection of studies is presented by a panel of international experts on South Asia. It contains perhaps the most insightful study of the South Asian nuclear standoff. On the cultural side long neglected cultural topics such as various strata of mus

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Building State and Nation in Pakistan	p. 1
Painting in Pakistan: 1947-1997	p. 26
Appropriating the Punjabi Folk: Gender and Other Dichotomies in Colonial and Post-Colonial Folk Studies	p. 40
Back to the Future? Pakistan, History, and Nation Building	p. 65
The Pakistan Military: A Bibliographical Study	p. 95
The Sound of Pakistani Culture: Fifty Years of Building, Contesting, and Negotiating National Identity through the Sonic Arts	p. 131
Towards a De-polarization of the Pakistani Women's Movement	p. 142
The Sufi and the Mullah: Islam and Local Culture in Pakistan	p. 169
Knights, not Pawns: Ethnic Nationalism and Regional Dynamics in Post-Colonial Balochistan	p. 199
Provincial Dreams and Federal Nightmares: The Urdu Short Stories of Mazhar ul Islam	p. 237
Interpreting the 'Fanatic': Colonial Justice and the 1897 Tribal Revolt in the North-west Frontier	p. 270
Pakistan's Nuclear Posture: Quest for Assured Nuclear Deterrence	p. 302
Ayub Khan, Constantinos Doxiadis, and Islamabad: Biography as Modernity in a Planned Urban Space	p. 351
Contributors	p. 377
Index	p. 379
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