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Political Conflict in Pakistan

Mohammad Waseem

出版	Hurst, 2021
主題	History / Asia / GeneralHistory / Asia / South / GeneralHistory / Modern / 20th Century / GeneralPolitical Science / Comparative PoliticsPolitical Science / Political Process / GeneralPolitical Science / World / AsianPolitical Science / GeopoliticsSocial Science / Social Classes & Economic Disparity
ISBN	17873840049781787384002
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=fnZkzQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

This book is a major reinterpretation of Pakistani politics. Its focus is conflict among groups, communities, classes, ideologies and institutions, which has shaped the country's political dynamics. Mohammad Waseem analyses the millennium-long conflict between Hindus and Muslims as separate nations but intermingled faiths, and the Hindu, Muslim and Sikh renaissances that created a twentieth-century clash of communities and led to partition. Political Conflict in Pakistan addresses multiple clashes: between the high culture as a mission to transform society, and the low culture of the land and the people; between those committed to the establishment's institutional constitutional framework and those seeking to dismantle the 'colonial' state; between the corrupt and those seeking to hold them to account; between the political class and the middle class; and between civil and military power. Waseem exposes how the ruling elite centralised power through the militarisation and judicialisation of politics, rendering the federalist arrangement an empty shell and grossly alienating the provinces. He sets all this within the contexts of education and media as breeders of conflict, the difficulties of establishing an anti-terrorist regime, and the state's pragmatic attempts at conflict resolution, under pressure from minorities. This is a wide-ranging account of a country of contestations.