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IN SEARCH OF LOST GLORY
₨ 4,445Sindhi nationalism is one of the oldest yet least studied cases of identity politics in Pakistan. Ethnic discontent appeared in Sindh in opposition to the rule of the Bombay presidency; to the onslaught of Punjabi settlers in the wake of canal irrigation; and, most decisively, to the arrival of millions of Muhajirs (Urdu-speaking migrants) after Partition. Under Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Benazir Bhutto and Asif Zardari, the Pakistan Peoples Party has upheld the Sindhi nationalist cause, even while playing the game of federalist politics. On the other side for half a century have been hardcore Sindhi nationalist groups, led by Marxists, provincial autonomists, landlord pirs and liberal intelligentsia in pursuit of ethnic outbidding.
This book narrates the story of the Bhutto dynasty, the Muhajir factor, nationalist ideologues, factional feuds amongst landed elites, and the role of violence as a maker and shaper of Sindhi nationalism. Moreover, it examines the role of the PPP as an ethnic entrepreneur through an analysis of its politics within the electoral arena and beyond. Bringing together extensive fieldwork and comparative studies of ethno-nationalism, both within and outside Pakistan, Asma Faiz uncovers the fascinating world of Sindhi nationalism.
Author: ASMA FAIZ
ISBN: 9781787383234
ISBN: 9781787383234
Publisher: HURST
Subtitle: SINDHI NATIONALISM IN PAKISTAN
Author: ASMA FAIZ -
BELT AND ROAD A CHINESE WORLD ORDER
₨ 8,280China’s Belt and Road strategy is acknowledged to be the most ambitious geopolitical initiative of the age. Covering almost seventy countries by land and sea, it will affect every element of global society, from shipping to agriculture, digital economy to tourism, politics to culture. Most importantly, it symbolises a new phase in China’s ambitions as a superpower: to remake the world economy and crown Beijing as the new centre of capitalism and globalisation.
Bruno Macaes traces this extraordinary initiative’s history, highlighting its achievements to date, and its staggering complexity. He asks whether Belt and Road is about more than power projection and profit. Might it herald a new set of universal political values, to rival those of the West? Is it, in fact, the story of the century?
ISBN: 9781787380028
Publisher: HURST
Subtitle: A CHINESE WORLD ORDER
Author: BRUNO MACAES -
POLITICAL CONFLICT IN PAKISTAN
₨ 4,995This book is a major reinterpretation of politics in Pakistan. Its focus is conflict among groups, communities, classes, ideologies and institutions, which has shaped the country’s political dynamics. Mohammad Waseem critically examines the theory surrounding the millennium-long conflict between Hindus and Muslims as separate nations who practiced mingled 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. The author exposes how the ruling elite centralised power through the militarisation and judicialisation of politics, rendering the federalist arrangement an empty shell and thus 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 by seeking to keep the outsiders inside. This is a wide-ranging account of a country of contestations.
ISBN: 9781787384002
Publisher: HURST
Subtitle:
Author: MOHAMMAD WASEEM -
WHITE AS THE SHROUD: INDIA, PAKISTAN AND WAR ON THE FRONTIERS OF KASHMIR
₨ 2,395
ISBN: 9781787383982
Publisher: HURST
Subtitle:
Author: MYRA MACDONALD -
ICONS OF DISSENT
₨ 7,448
ISBN: 9781849046657
Publisher: HURST
Subtitle: THE GLOBAL RESONANCE OF CHE, MARLEY, TUPAC, AND BIN LADEN
Author: JEREMY PRESTHOLDT -
HEZBOLLAH MOBILISATION AND POWER
₨ 10,349
ISBN: 9781849046312
Publisher: HURST
Subtitle:
Author: AURELIE DAHER -
THE BOKO HARAM READER
₨ 10,349
ISBN: 9781849048842
Publisher: HURST
Subtitle: FROM NIGERIAN PREACHERS TO THE
ISLAMIC STATE
Author: ABDULBASIT KASSIM -
THE TALIBAN READER
₨ 10,349
ISBN: 9781849048095
Publisher: HURST
Subtitle: WAR, ISLAM AND POLITICS
Author: ALEX STRICK VAN LINSCHOTEN -
IDENTITY, CONFLICT AND POLITICS IN TURKEY, IRAN AND PAKISTAN
₨ 26,905
ISBN: 9781849043724
Publisher: HURST
Subtitle:
Author: GILLES DORRONSORO -
GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM
₨ 7,448
ISBN: 9781849049092
Publisher: HURST
Subtitle: THE BACKLASH AGAINST IMMIGRATION AND
THE FATE OF WESTERN DEMOCRACY
Author: SASHA POLAKOW-SURANSKY -
THE CHANGING SECURITY DYNAMICS OR THE PERSIAN GULF
₨ 10,349
ISBN: 9781849048422
Publisher: HURST
Subtitle:
Author: KRISTIAN COATES ULRICHSEN -
PAN-ISLAMIC CONNECTIONS
₨ 10,349
ISBN: 9781849048187
Publisher: HURST
Subtitle: TRANSNATIONAL NETWORKS BETWEEN SOUTH ASIA AND THE GULF
Author: CHRISTOPHE JAFFRELOT -
TRIBES AND GLOBAL JIHADISM
₨ 8,280
ISBN: 9781849048156
Publisher: HURST
Subtitle:
Author: VIRGINIE COLLOMBIER -
AL-QAEDA 2.0
₨ 10,349
ISBN: 9781849048101
Publisher: HURST
Subtitle: A CRITICAL READER
Author: DONALD HOLBROOK -
NORMAN ANDERSON AND THE CHRISTIAN MISSION TO MODERNISE ISLAM
₨ 22,767
ISBN: 9781849047036
Publisher: HURST
Subtitle:
Author: TODD M. THOMPSON -
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WHY EUROPE INTRVENES IN AFRICA
₨ 14,487
ISBN: 9781849046930
Publisher: HURST
Subtitle: SECURITY, PRESTIGE AND THE LEAGACY OF
COLONIALISM
Author: CATHERINE GEGOUT -
MYTHS AND NATIONHOOD
₨ 5,155Myths are central to the way we live. They are not just fables, deceptions and manipulations. They are vital and necessary aspects of every community. All communities tell narratives about themselves, about who they are, how they came to be and what they are striving to do. Myths establish coherence and a consistency for the members of a community and create the assumptions that are seen as normal and natural.
In politics, myth has crucial functions in determining which parts of a community’s self-image are seen as important and which are ignored; thanks to the various myths that communities tell about themselves, what is and is not stressed changes over time. The nature of power, legitimacy, change, meanings, unity and diversity are all deeply affected by myth, as are questions of nationhood, ethnicity and conflict.
In this pioneering work a group of specialists − among them Anthony Smith, Norman Davies, Geoffrey Hosking and George Schöpflin — look at the general and theoretical nature of myth on a universal basis and examine the specific myths of various nations.
ISBN: 1850653348
Publisher: HURST
Subtitle:
Author: GEOFFREY HOSKIN -
BOSNIA AND HERCEGOVINA
₨ 10,950This book examines Bosnia’s rich historical traditions in light of the conflict that erupted
there in 1992. The authors explain the origins of Bosnia’s major ethnonational groups in the religious conversions of the Middle Ages and
under the Ottomans as a prelude to the
transformation of its principal religious
communities into twentieth-century nationalities. The roles of Bosnia’s Muslims, Serbs,
and Croats in the events affecting the Yugoslav
peoples in the twentieth century and then as
Yugoslavia disintegrated in the early 1990s are vividly presented.
Donia and Fine take issue with the
widespread perception of Bosnia’s history as
one consisting of perpetual violence and tribal hatred
among the Serbs, Croats, and Muslims. In
contrast, they emphasize that a rich tradition of
diversity, pluralism, and tolerance developed over many centuries and flourished until very recently. This tradition in everyday life was
reflected in politics by coalition building and a habit of pragmatic compromise. Bosnia and
Hercegovina: A Tradition Betrayed shows how
the forces of extreme nationalism undermined
Bosnia’s multiethnic tradition — first in World
War 11 and now in the current conflict. Unfettered extremists proceeded to destroy much of Bosnian society and to kill or drive out many of its people.
ISBN: 1850652120
Publisher: HURST
Subtitle: A TRADITION BETRAYED
Author: ROBERT J DONIA