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The promise of power : the origins of democracy in India and autocracy in Pakistan / Maya Tudor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tudor, Maya Jessica, 1975-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- India--Politics and government--1947-.
- India.
- Politics and government.
- Pakistan--Politics and government.
- Pakistan.
- Democracy.
- Authoritarianism.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 240 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
- Contents:
- 1. How India institutionalised democracy & Pakistan promoted autocracy
- 2. The social origins of pro- and anti-democratic movements (1885-1919)
- 3. Imagining and institutionalizing new nations (1919-1947)
- 4. Organizing alliances (1919-1947)
- 5. Freedom at midnight and divergent democracies (1947-1958)
- 6. The institutionalization of alliances in India, Pakistan, and beyond.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781107032965
- 1107032962
- OCLC:
- 825106424
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