| Author: |
Ayesha Jalal |
| Publisher: |
Sang-e-Meel |
Description:
When the British dismantled their Raj in 1947 India, as the ‘successor’ state, inherited the colonial unitary central apparatus where as Pakistan, as the ‘seceding’ state, had no semblance of a central government. In ‘The state of martial rule’ Ayesha Jalal analyses the dialect between state construction and political processes in Pakistan in the first decade of the country’s independence and convincingly demonstrates how the imperatives of the international system in the ‘cold war’ era combined with the regional and domestic factors to mould the structure of the Pakistani state.
Using hitherto unpublished material, Professor Jalal examines the way in which the senior echelons of the civil bureaucracy and military succeeded in tilting the institutional balance of power against parties and politicians and analyses the strategic concerns and economic constraints which prompted Pakistan’s first military coup d’etat in 1958.
| DesiStore # |
PBH00880 |
| ISBN |
969-35-0977-3 |
| Edition |
First |
| Year |
1999 |
| Pages |
362 |
| Weight (kg) |
0.56 |
| Weight (lbs) |
1.41 |
| Dimensions: |
22x14x2cm |
| HB/PB |
Hard Back |
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She also explores the role of Islam in the balance between state and society and sheds new light on the recurring tensions between the pakistan centre and the provinces and the related problems of ‘ethnicity’. The study concludes by placing the state and political development in Pakistan from 1958 to the present within a conceptual framework.
‘The state of martial rule’ will be read by historians of South Asia and by students and specialists of comparative politics and political economy.
The State of Martial Rule
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