The Pakistan Paradox: Instability and Resilience

by Christophe Jaffrelot

Book Overview

Pakistan was born as the creation of elite Urdu-speaking Muslims who sought to govern a state that would maintain their dominance. After rallying non-Urdu speaking leaders around him, Jinnah imposed a unitary definition of the new nation state that obliterated linguistic diversity. This centralisation - 'justified' by the Indian threat - fostered centrifugal forces that resulted in Bengali secessionism in 1971 and Baloch, as well as Mohajir, separatisms...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190235187
• ISBN13: 9780190235185
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 670 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 5.4" x 8.5"