Creating a new Medina :state power, Islam, and the quest for Pakistan in late colonial North India Venkat Dhulipala.
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TextPublication details: New Delhi: Cambridge University Press; 2015Description: xxii, 530 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cmISBN: - 9781107052123 (hb)
- All-India Muslim League -- History -- 20th century
- Elections -- India -- Uttar Pradesh -- History -- 20th century
- Pakistan movement -- History
- Nationalism -- Pakistan -- History -- 20th century
- Power (Social sciences) -- Pakistan -- History -- 20th century
- Islam and politics -- Pakistan -- History -- 20th century
- Postcolonialism -- Pakistan -- History -- 20th century
- Pakistan -- Politics and government -- 20th century
- India, North -- Politics and government -- 20th century
- Uttar Pradesh (India) -- Politics and government -- 20th century
- 954.91 DHU/Cre 23
- DS480.45 .D49 2015
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Includes epilogue, conclusion, bibliography and index.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
"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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