Crafty Oligarchs, Savvy Voters

Crafty Oligarchs, Savvy Voters
Title Crafty Oligarchs, Savvy Voters PDF eBook
Author Shandana Khan Mohmand
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 318
Release 2019-05-23
Genre Political Science
ISBN 1108678203

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How does democracy empower marginalized voters under conditions of inequality? The author probes into this question grounding her research in the context of Pakistan, an emerging democracy whose voters have actively been involved in defining its political history but about whom we know very little. They turn up in sizeable numbers to vote during elections, even under military rule, prompting all kinds of contradictory stereotypes about how Pakistani rural voters behave as electoral cannon fodder. But no one has looked very closely at why they vote as they do, or why they vote at all when their political agency is severely limited by high socio-economic inequality. By using original data collected across different villages and households in rural Pakistan, this book finds that electoral politics enables even the most marginalized voters to strategically further their interests vis-à-vis elite groups, but that persistent inequality limits their ability to organize or compete.

A History of Bangladesh

A History of Bangladesh
Title A History of Bangladesh PDF eBook
Author Willem van Schendel
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 459
Release 2020-07-02
Genre History
ISBN 1108620337

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Bangladesh did not exist as an independent state until 1971. Willem van Schendel's state-of-the-art history navigates the extraordinary twists and turns that created modern Bangladesh through ecological disaster, colonialism, partition, a war of independence and cultural renewal. In this revised and updated edition, Van Schendel offers a fascinating and highly readable account of life in Bangladesh over the last two millennia. Based on the latest academic research and covering the numerous historical developments of the 2010s, he provides an eloquent introduction to a fascinating country and its resilient and inventive people. A perfect survey for travellers, expats, students and scholars alike.

The Struggle for Equality

The Struggle for Equality
Title The Struggle for Equality PDF eBook
Author Heewon Kim
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 266
Release 2019-03-21
Genre History
ISBN 1108416101

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Examines the United Progressive Alliance-led government's (2004-14) agenda for the religious minorities in India.

The Women's Movement in Pakistan

The Women's Movement in Pakistan
Title The Women's Movement in Pakistan PDF eBook
Author Ayesha Khan
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 420
Release 2018-11-30
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1786735237

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The military rule of General Zia ul-Haq, former President of Pakistan, had significant political repercussions for the country. Islamization policies were far more pronounced and control over women became the key marker of the state's adherence to religious norms. Women's rights activists mobilized as a result, campaigning to reverse oppressive policies and redefine the relationship between state, society and Islam. Their calls for a liberal democracy led them to be targeted and suppressed. This book is a history of the modern women's movement in Pakistan. The research is based on documents from the Women's Action Forum archives, court judgments on relevant cases, as well as interviews with activists, lawyers and judges and analysis of newspapers and magazines. Ayesha Khan argues that the demand for a secular state and resistance to Islamization should not be misunderstood as Pakistani women sympathizing with a western agenda. Rather, their work is a crucial contribution to the evolution of the Pakistani state. The book outlines the discriminatory laws and policies that triggered domestic and international outcry, landmark cases of sexual violence that rallied women activists together and the important breakthroughs that enhanced women's rights. At a time when the women's movement in Pakistan is in danger of shrinking, this book highlights its historic significance and its continued relevance today.

India and Pakistan

India and Pakistan
Title India and Pakistan PDF eBook
Author Selig S. Harrison
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 238
Release 1999
Genre History
ISBN 9780521645850

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Leading specialists on South Asia assess the progress and problems of India and Pakistan, their foreign and defense policies, and their relations with the United States.

New Perspectives on Pakistan's Political Economy

New Perspectives on Pakistan's Political Economy
Title New Perspectives on Pakistan's Political Economy PDF eBook
Author Matthew McCartney
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 288
Release 2019-09-19
Genre Political Science
ISBN 110876309X

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This volume makes a major intervention in the debates around the nature of the political economy of Pakistan, focusing on its contemporary social dynamics. This is the first comprehensive academic analysis of Pakistan's political economy after thirty-five years, and addresses issues of state, class and society, examining gender, the middle classes, the media, the bazaar economy, urban spaces and the new elite. The book goes beyond the contemporary obsession with terrorism and extremism, political Islam, and simple 'civilian–military relations', and looks at modern-day Pakistan through the lens of varied academic disciplines. It not only brings together new work by some emerging scholars but also formulates a new political economy for the country, reflecting the contemporary reality and diversification in the social sciences in Pakistan. The chapters dynamically and dialectically capture emergent processes and trends in framing Pakistan's political economy and invite scholars to engage with and move beyond these concerns and issues.

Sorrow and Joy Among Muslim Women

Sorrow and Joy Among Muslim Women
Title Sorrow and Joy Among Muslim Women PDF eBook
Author Amineh Ahmed
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 8
Release 2006-09-21
Genre Religion
ISBN 0521861691

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