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Creating a new Medina : state power, Islam, and the quest for Pakistan in late colonial North India / Venkat Dhulipala.

By: Dhulipala, Venkat [author.].
Material type: TextTextDescription: xxii, 530 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.ISBN: 1107052122; 9781107052123.Subject(s): All-India Muslim League -- History -- 20th century | All-India Muslim League | 1900 - 1999 | 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 | Elections | Islam and politics | Nationalism | Pakistan movement | Political science | Postcolonialism | Power (Social sciences) | Pakistan -- Politics and government -- 20th century | India, North -- Politics and government -- 20th century | Uttar Pradesh (India) -- Politics and government -- 20th century | India, North | India -- Uttar Pradesh | PakistanGenre/Form: History.DDC classification: 954.91035
Contents:
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.
Scope and content: "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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Includes bibliographical references (pages [503]-518) 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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