Ali Usman Qasmi 
Qaum, Mulk, Sultanat [EPUB ebook] 
Citizenship and National Belonging in Pakistan

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After the trauma of mass violence and massive population movements around the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, both new nation states faced the enormous challenge of creating new national narratives, symbols, and histories, as well as a new framework for their political life. While leadership in India claimed the anti-colonial movement, Gandhi, and a civilizational legacy in the subcontinent, the new political elite in Pakistan were faced with a more complex task: to carve out a separate and distinct Muslim history and political tradition from a millennium long history of cultural and religious interaction, mixing, and coexistence.

Drawing on a rich archive of diverse sources, Ali Qasmi traces the complex development of ideas of citizenship and national belonging in the postcolonial Muslim state, offering a nuanced and sweeping history of the country’s formative period. Qasmi paints a rich picture of the long, arduous, and often conflict-ridden process of writing a democratic constitution of Pakistan, while simultaneously narrating the invention of a range of new rituals of state—such as the exact color of the flag, the precise date of birth of the national poet of Pakistan, and the observation of Eid as a ‘national festival’—providing an illuminating analysis of the practices of being Pakistani, and a new portrait of Muslim history in the subcontinent.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Noah’s Ark? The Making of Pakistan as a Homeland for Muslim Nationals
2. Quilting Islam: Pakistan as an Islamic Republic
3. Making the State National: Symbols, Flag, and Anthem
4. Over the Moon:Ulema, State, and Authority in Pakistan
5. Scripting the National Time and Space: Archive, Calendar, Roads, and Museums
Postscript: A New Beginning – My Fellow Countrymen
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Despre autor

Ali Usman Qasmi is Associate Professor of History at Lahore University of Management Sciences.

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Limba Engleză ● Format EPUB ● Pagini 444 ● ISBN 9781503637795 ● Mărime fișier 1.6 MB ● Editura Stanford University Press ● Publicat 2023 ● Ediție 1 ● Descărcabil 24 luni ● Valută EUR ● ID 9151629 ● Protecție împotriva copiilor Adobe DRM
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