Author: Soofia Mumtaz
Jean - Luc Racine/Imran Anwar Ali
Editor(s): Soofia Mumtaz/ Jean - Luc Racine/ Imran Anwar Ali
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 2002
Language: English
Pages: 276
ISBN/UPC (if available): 0195797809
Description
This is a collection of papers originating from a Pakistan-French Seminar organized in Paris. This volume covers a much wider spectrum than similar retrospective volumes on Pakistan and focuses on some issues not addressed before.
In the course of their close analysis, the contributors uncover new operating concepts like Socialist Feminism, give an authentic socio-economic profile of parliamentarians, and explain convincingly why linkages between economic strategies and outcome have been fortuitous.
Topics covered include the Historiography of Partition, the ongoing sectarian and ethnic strife in Pakistan, The constricted role of political parties, and Pakistan’s policies on Afghanistan which can be judged against the post-11 September scenario.
Hitherto readers have had access to British, American and even Indian studies on Pakistan. This volume makes accessible the views of notable French scholars.
Contents
Editors’ Note
Preface: Understanding Pakistan-The Impact of Global, Regional, National, and Local Interactions
Imran Anwar Ali & Soofia Mumtaz
Introduction: The State and the Nation of Pakistan-A Multifaceted Assessment
Jean-Luc Racine
PART I : GENESIS, HISTORICAL PROCESS, AND IDEOLOGICAL RATIONALES OF PAKISTAN
Claude Markovits
Cross-currents in the Historiography of Partition
Imran Anwar Ali
Past and Present: the Making of the State in Pakistan
PART II: ISLAM AND THE PAKISTANI POLITY
Marc Gaborieau
Religion in the Pakistani Polity
Manzoor Ahmed
Pakistan: Aporia of its Kind
PART III: IDENTITY MOVEMENTS: RELIGION, ETHNICITY AND GENDER
Mariam Abou Zahab
Sectarianism as a Substitute Identity:
Sunnis and Shias in Central and South Punjab
Soofia Mumtaz
Nationalism, Ethnicity and the Mohajir Political Movement in Sindh
Nighat Said Khan
The New Global Order:
Politics and the Women’s Movement in Pakistan
PART IV: THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PAKISTAN
Arshad Zaman
Economic Strategies and Policies in Pakistan, 1947-1997
Gilbert Etienne
The Economy of Pakistan,
The Present and the Future:
the Most Dangerous Years
PART V: THE CHALLENGE OF DEMOCRACY: THE LESSONS OF THE PAST
Saeed Shafqat
Democracy and Political Transformation in Pakistan
Pierre Lafrance
Political Parties in Pakistan: Role and Limitations
PART VI: REGINAL GEOPOLITICS: THE QUESTION OF NATIONAL INTERESTS
Gilles Dorronsoro Pakistan’s Afghan Policy
Rifaat Hussain
Normalization of Relations between Pakistan and India: Possibilities and Impediments
List of Contributors