The Archives of the All-India Muslim League and other contemporary sources have been used in this comprehensive study of the Party that led the movement for the creation of Pakistan. The book encompasses the organizational structure of the All-India Muslim League, its financial and propaganda resources, its mobilization strategies, and different aspects of its struggle. Dr Afzal presents the account in a simple and lucid style. It is indispensable reading for anyone who wishes to understand the dynamics of the pre- and post-Independence history and politics of Pakistan, Bangladesh and India.

In this book, the author takes Pakistan as a case study in a search for better definitions of nations and nationalism, arguing that it exhibits the three essential ingredients for a successful national movement. These are a distinctive integrated community, a particular set of circumstances, and purposeful leadership.

Under what conditions are some developing countries able to create stable democracies while others have slid into instability and authoritarianism? To address this classic question at the center of policy and academic debates, The Promise of Power investigates a striking puzzle: why, upon the 1947 Partition of British India, was India able to establish a stable democracy while Pakistan created an unstable autocracy? Drawing on interviews, colonial correspondence, and early government records to document the genesis of two of the twentieth century's most celebrated independence movements, Maya Tudor refutes the prevailing notion that a country's democratization prospects can be directly attributed to its levels of economic development or inequality. Instead, she demonstrates that the differential strengths of India's and Pakistan's independence movements directly account for their divergent democratization trajectories. She also establishes that these movements were initially constructed to pursue historically conditioned class interests. By illuminating the source of this enduring contrast, The Promise of Power offers a broad theory of democracy's origins that will interest scholars and students of comparative politics, democratization, state-building, and South Asian political history.

With reference to Bengal, India, part of which is now Bangladesh.

This book challenges the fundamental assumptions regarding the foundations of Pakistani nationalism during colonial rule in India.