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Empire and Islam: Punjab and the Making of Pakistan (Comparative Studies on Muslim Societies) - Hardcover
Emerging from the partition of India in 1947, Pakistan was a product of the first and perhaps the most successful of those twentieth-century movements which sought to bring about an Islamic transformation of the post-colonial state. But the evolution of Islam's role in the Pakistan movement has long been debated. This book examines the problem through a detailed study of Muslim politics in the Punjab--Pakistan's largest and most important province--in the decades leading up to India's partition. Gilmartin argues that an understanding of Muslim politics in this period depends on an understanding of the close interaction between the ideology and structure of the British colonial empire on the one hand, and the structure of Islamic organization and ideas on the other.The British imperial state rejected religion as a foundation for its central authority, yet its structure encouraged the development of forms of rural Islam adapted to local organization and to the hierarchical and m
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David Gilmartin is Assistant Professor of History at North Carolina State University.
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- PublisherUniversity of California Press
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0520062493
- ISBN 13 9780520062498
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- Number of pages270
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