Qaum, mulk, sultanat: citizenship and national belonging in Pakistan

"After the trauma of mass violence and massive population movements around the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, both new nation states faced the enormous challenge of creating new national narratives, symbols, and histories, as well as a new framework for their political life. While lea...

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Subtitles:Citizenship and national belonging in Pakistan
Main Author: Qasmi, Ali Usman (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Interlibrary Loan:Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany)
Published: Stanford, California Stanford University Press 2024
In:Year: 2024
Series/Journal:South Asia in motion
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Pakistan / National state / State symbol / Islam / History
Further subjects:B Asian History
B Asiatische Geschichte
B Pakistan Politics and government 1947-1971
B Politics & government
B India & South Asia / Asia / HISTORY
B Islamic Studies / SOCIAL SCIENCE
B Politik und Staat
B Nationalism (Pakistan) History 20th century
B Citizenship (Pakistan) History 20th century
B Colonialism & imperialism
B Indischer Subkontinent
B Kolonialismus und Imperialismus
B POL045000
B Indian sub-continent
B Soziale Gruppen: religiöse Gemeinschaften
B Pakistan Politics and government 1971-1988
Online Access: Cover (Verlag)
Parallel Edition:Electronic
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Summary:"After the trauma of mass violence and massive population movements around the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, both new nation states faced the enormous challenge of creating new national narratives, symbols, and histories, as well as a new framework for their political life. While leadership in India claimed the anti-colonial movement, Gandhi, and a civilizational legacy in the subcontinent, the new political elite in Pakistan were faced with a more complex task: to carve out a separate and distinct Muslim history and political tradition from a millennium long history of cultural and religious interaction, mixing, and coexistence. Drawing on a rich archive of diverse sources, Ali Qasmi traces the complex development of ideas of citizenship and national belonging in the postcolonial Muslim state, offering a nuanced and sweeping history of the country's formative period. Qasmi paints a rich picture of the long, arduous, and often conflict-ridden process of writing a democratic constitution of Pakistan, while also simultaneously narrating the invention of a range of new rituals of state - such as the exact color of the flag, the precise date of birth of the national poet of Pakistan, and the observation of Eid as a "national festival" - that provides an illuminating analysis of the practices of being Pakistani, and a new portrait of Muslim history in the subcontinent"--
Item Description:Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 405-421 und Index
Zielgruppe: 5PGP, Bezug zum Islam und islamischen Gruppen
Physical Description:x, 430 Seiten
ISBN:150363728X