Author: Mahomed Ali Jinnah
Publisher: Chair
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 786
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Rafiq Zakaria
Publisher: Popular Prakashan
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9788179911457
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Steven I. Wilkinson
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2015-02-12
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0674967003
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →At Indian independence in 1947, the country’s founders worried that the army India inherited—conservative and dominated by officers and troops drawn disproportionately from a few “martial” groups—posed a real threat to democracy. They also saw the structure of the army, with its recruitment on the basis of caste and religion, as incompatible with their hopes for a new secular nation. India has successfully preserved its democracy, however, unlike many other colonial states that inherited imperial “divide and rule” armies, and unlike its neighbor Pakistan, which inherited part of the same Indian army in 1947. As Steven I. Wilkinson shows, the puzzle of how this happened is even more surprising when we realize that the Indian Army has kept, and even expanded, many of its traditional “martial class” units, despite promising at independence to gradually phase them out. Army and Nation draws on uniquely comprehensive data to explore how and why India has succeeded in keeping the military out of politics, when so many other countries have failed. It uncovers the command and control strategies, the careful ethnic balancing, and the political, foreign policy, and strategic decisions that have made the army safe for Indian democracy. Wilkinson goes further to ask whether, in a rapidly changing society, these structures will survive the current national conflicts over caste and regional representation in New Delhi, as well as India’s external and strategic challenges.
Author: Adeel Hussain
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2022-02-28
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 0192675923
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →During the 1930s, much of the world was in severe economic and political crisis. This upheaval ushered in new ways of thinking about social and political systems. In some cases, these new ideas transformed states and empires alike. Particularly in Europe, these transformations are well-chronicled in scholarship. In academic writings on India, however, Muslim political and legal thought has gone relatively unnoticed during this eventful decade. This book fills this gap by mapping the evolution of Muslim political and legal thought from roughly 1927 to 1940. By looking at landmark court cases in tandem with the political and legal ideas of Muhammad Iqbal and Muhammad Ali Jinnah, Pakistan's founding fathers, this book highlights the more concealed ways in which Indian Muslims began to acquire a political outlook with distinctly separatist aspirations. What makes this period worthy of a separate study is that the legal antagonism between religious communities in the 1930s foreshadowed political conflicts that arose in the run-up to independence in 1947. The presented cases and thinkers reflect the possibilities and limitations of Muslim political thought in colonial India.
Author: Riaz Ahmad
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 280
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Mohammed Ali Jinnah, 1876-1948, statesman and founder of Pakistan.
Author: Ian Bryant Wells
Publisher: Seagull Books
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 288
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book analyses the development of Jinnah ́s relationship with India ́s Muslims from his entry into politics until 1934. It shows that a dominant view of Jinnah - that he was an ambassador of Hindu Muslim unity in the 1920s who became a communalist in the 1940s - is far from the truth. The book argues that the "two Jinnahs" approach over-simplifies the trajectory of a complex and evolving political thinker and strategist. The primary changes in Jinnah ́s politics were the strategies he employed to achieve his goals rather than the goals themselves. Amongst the many aspects of Jinnah ́s political thought and career analysed here are his "elitism" and distance from mass politics, his relations with Gandhi, Motilal and Jawaharlal Nehru, Willingdon, Ramsay MacDonald and Irwin, his attitude to the Rowlatt Act, the Khilafat movement and non-cooperation, and his troubled and complex relations with other nationalist Muslim leaders.
Author: Ian Bryant Wells
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 288
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →On the life and role of Mahomed Ali Jinnah, 1876-1948, Pakistani Statesman in the run up to Pakistan movement against India.