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This book is the main text for post-graduate courses on South Asia's development, economic history and on its political economy. For researchers on Pakistan's economy, it is the key source for reference, and covers a huge and diverse array of data, literature reviews, commentary and analysis.
Makes a major intervention in debates around the nature of the political economy of Pakistan, focusing on its contemporary social dynamics.
Using primarily Urdu sources from the nineteenth century, this book allows us to rethink notions of 'the Muslim', in its numerous, complex and often contradictory forms, which emerged in colonial North India after 1857. Allowing the self-representation of Muslimness and its manifestations to emerge, it contrasts how the colonial British 'made Muslims' very differently compared to how the community envisaged themselves. A key argument made here contests the general sense of the narrative of lamentation, decay, decline, and a sense of self-pity and ruination, by proposing a different condition, that of zillat, a condition which gave rise to much self-reflection resulting in action, even if it was in the form of writing and expression. By questioning how and when a Muslim community emerged in colonial India, the book unsettles the teleological explanation of the Partition of India and the making of Pakistan.
This Book Deals With One Of The Most Essential Conditions Of Human Exstence: The Health Of Individuals And Society. The Author Has Described The Multifaceted Structure Of Health Care In Pakistan At Great Length And Has Then Identified And Highlighted The Results Of This Health System On The People Of The Country.
Previous ed.: Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2005.
The role of government, institutions and society has been radically transformed in the last two decades. This book examines how the New Development Paradigm is put into practice in Pakistan and other underdeveloped countries. It focuses upon the role NGOs, institutions and local goverments play in development related activity, and examines the attempts to alter the gender balance, considered to be one of the main reasons for lack of development. Essentially, the book offers a critique of the new theories which constitute the New Development Paradigm and addresses a wide audience ranging from the scholar and activist to journalists and general readers.