Creating a new medina : state power, Islam, and the quest for Pakistan in late colonial north India /

Dhulipala, Venkat

Creating a new medina : state power, Islam, and the quest for Pakistan in late colonial north India / Venkat Dhulipala - India Cambridge University 2015 - 530p.

This book examines how the idea of Pakistan was articulated and debated in the public sphere and how popular enthusiasm was generated for its successful achievement, especially in the crucial province of UP (now Uttar Pradesh) in the last decade of British colonial rule in 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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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.

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