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Creating a new Medina : state power, Islam, and the quest for Pakistan in late colonial North India /
"Discusses the fundamental assumptions regarding the foundations of Pakistani nationalism as well as our current understanding of the roots of its postcolonial identity crisis"--
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| Online Access: | Book review (H-Net) |
Table of 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.