Civilization and Modernity: Narrating the Creation of Pakistan - Couverture souple

Gilmartin, David

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9380403100 ISBN 13 : 9789380403106

Editeur : Yoda Press, 2017

Synopsis

The story of India’s partition and the creation of Pakistan remains even today a subject of considerable scholarly contention despite the substantial corpus of works on the subject. Focusing on the Punjab during the colonial era, this collection of eleven essays frames the story within the tensions of modernity and civilization. David Gilmartin casts Pakistan’s story against the power of the myriad local identities that played a powerful role in shaping local life in colonial Punjab. The ties of genealogy, whether associated with local sufi authority, or with the local biradari, provided the keys to local social order in the province. It was against this backdrop that an imagined moral community linked to Islam gained currency in the 20th century in the new spheres of publication and debate in Punjab’s cities. Civilization and Modernity provides a lucid and incisive narration of the civilizational crisis in the Punjab, rooted in the tensions between local life and larger civilizational imaginings which led to Pakistan’s emergence as a new symbol of identity. The book will be mandatory reading for students and scholars of modern Indian history and politics, anthropology and South Asian studies. It will also be compelling reading for the informed lay reader inter­ested in the making of ‘modern’ South Asia.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

David Gilmartin studies modern South Asian history. He received his BA from the University of Michigan and his Ph.D. in History from the University of California--Berkeley. He has conducted research in India and Pakistan. Gilmartin's research interest focus on the intersections between the history of British imperialism in South Asia and the development of modern politics and forms of rule. His first book (Empire and Islam: Punjab and the Making of Pakistan) focused on the relationship between British imperial rule and the creation of Pakistan at the time of India's independence from Britain in 1947. More recent research projects have focused on the connections between irrigation-based environmental transformations (in the Indus basin) and modern politics, and on the legal history of India's electoral institutions as they have evolved from its colonial past.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Yoda Press
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9380403100
• ISBN 13: 9789380403106
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
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