Problems of governance in Pakistan are rooted in a persistently unclear and antagonistic relationship among the forces of authority, ideology and ethnicity. Based on theoretical and empirical research this book focuses on significant themes such as the oligarchic state structure dominated by the military and bureaucracy, civil society, Islam and the formation of Muslim identity in British India, constitutional traditions and their subversion by coercive policies, politics of gender, ethnicity, and Muslim nationalism versus regional nationalisms as espoused by Sindhi nationalists and the Karachi-based Muhajir Qaumi Movement (MQM).

Keywords

constitution
culture
desegregation
gender
governance
government
identity
Integration
Nation
nationalism
Pakistan
politics
society
Tradition
work

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Bath College of Higher Education, UK

Iftikhar H. Malik

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IFTIKHAR H. MALIK is Lecturer in History at the Bath Spa University College. His other books include: Pakistan at Fifty: Stalemate or a New Beginning; U.S.-South Asian Relations, 1940-7; U.S.-South Asia Relations, 1784-1940; The Continuing Conflict in Kashmir; Sikandar Hayat Khan: A Political Biography and Pakistan: People and Places. He has also published numerous papers in international journals and is a regular commentator on Current Muslim politics and Asian history on the BBC and VOA.

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Book Title: State and Civil Society in Pakistan
Book Subtitle: Politics of Authority, Ideology and Ethnicity
Authors: Iftikhar H. Malik
Series Title: St Antony's Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230376298
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1997
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-64666-3Published: 13 November 1996
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-37629-8Published: 13 November 1996
Series ISSN: 2633-5964
Series E-ISSN: 2633-5972
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 347
Topics: Asian Politics, Sociology, general, Cultural Studies, Political Science, Asian History

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