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Pakistan at the millennium / edited by Charles H. Kennedy ... [and others].
LIBRA DS376.9 .P35 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pakistan.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 390 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Karachi : Oxford University Press, 2003.
- Summary:
- This collection of studies is presented by a panel of international experts on South Asia. It contains perhaps the most insightful study of the South Asian nuclear standoff. On the cultural side long neglected cultural topics such as various strata of music, mysticism and pictorial arts are addressed. Compulsory reading for the area specialist.
- Contents:
- Building state and nation in Pakistan / Rasul Bakhsh Rais
- Painting in Pakistan, 1947-1997 / Marcella C. Sirhandi
- Appropriating the Punjabi folk : gender and other dichotomies in colonial and post-colonial folk studies / David Gilmartin and Michelle Maskiell
- Back to the future? : Pakistan, history and nation building / Ian Talbot
- The Pakistan military : a bibliographical study / Hasan-Askari Rizvi
- The sound of Pakistani culture : fifty years of building, contesting, and negotiating : national identity through the sonic arts / Regula Burckhardt Qureshi
- Towards a de-polarization of the Pakistani women's movement / Kathleen McNeil
- The sufi and the mullah : Islam and local culture in Pakistan / Katherine Pratt Ewing
- Knights, not pawns : ethnic nationalism and regional dynamics in post-colonial Balochistan / Paul Tins and Nina Swidler
- Provincial dreams and federal nightmares : the Urdu short stories of Mazhar ul Islam / Christopher Shackle
- Interpreting the "fanatic" : colonial justice and the 1897 tribal revolt in the north-west frontier / Robert Nichols
- Pakistan's nuclear posture : quest for assured nuclear deterrence / Rodney W. Jones
- Ayub Khan, Constantinos Doxiadis, and Islamabad : biography as modernity in a planned urban space / Frank C. Spaulding.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0195797760
- OCLC:
- 51000339
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