#12 of 16: PAKISTAN: ORIGINS, IDENTITY, AND FUTURE
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- Опубліковано 1 чер 2024
- Pervez Hoodbhoy in conversation with Shaheryar Azhar
-- Garrison state versus praetorian state
-- What made Pakistan’s army ambitious?
-- Defining the “establishment”
-- Pakistan’s wars of choice
-- Organizing the first global jihad
-- How the Indian army was tamed
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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
o Front cover endorsement by Noam Chomsky
o Back cover endorsements
o Acknowledgments
o About the author
o Foreword by Christophe Jaffrelot
o Why this Book?
o Charting the Labyrinth
- Myths of a nation’s origin
- Exclusivism as philosophy
- Was Partition accidental?
- The book’s expeditionary map (Parts I-V)
o Part One: Long Before The Two Nation Idea
1. Identity formation in medieval India
- The herd instinct
- India without nations
- The Sanskrit controversy
- Muslim invasions
- Mughal era purifiers of Islam
- Conclusion
2. The British reinvent India
- Colonialism quietly sneaks in
- The Great Mutiny - a watershed
- Demoralized Muslim ashrafiyya
- Exception: the United Provinces
- The Muslim predicament
- Modernity impacts Muslims
- Modernity impacts Hindus
- Ways begin to part
o Part Two: A Closer Look At Pakistan’s Three Founder-Heroes
3. Founder I: the lonely modernizer
- Early years
- It’s okay to eat mangos
- Metamorphosis to modernity
- Siding with the British
- An unabashed elitist
- The non-communal Sir Syed
- Sir Syed communalizes
- Sir Syed’s mixed legacy
4. Founder II: premier poet-preacher-politician
- Everyone loves Iqbal
- Biographical sketch
- Philosopher or just philosophical?
- Iqbal uses languages selectively
- Iqbal on faith versus reason
- Iqbal’s physics/math criticisms
- Iqbal’s “higher” communalism
- Iqbal on women
- Iqbal on theocracy
- Iqbal on blasphemy
- Iqbal and Sir Syed compared
5. Founder III: liberal-secular-visionary?
- Did Jinnah have a plan?
- Anticipating dependence
- Did Jinnah not want Pakistan?
- Jinnah - the man
- Did Jinnah want secularism?
- Jinnah fuses politics with religion
- Jinnah and the Islamic state
- Jinnah’s Shia problem
- A master tactician not strategist
6. Jinnah trounces his Muslim opponents
- Maududi - Jinnah’s nemesis
- Azad - the prescient cleric
- Bacha Khan - the peaceful Pathan
- Who won, who lost?
o Part Three: Postnatal Blues
7. Stubborn angularities I: Bengal
- A snapshot of history
- Mocking Bangla
- The road to separation
- Punjab still doesn’t want to know why
- Bangladesh overtakes Pakistan
- Final reflections
8. Stubborn angularities II: Balochistan
- A shotgun wedding
- Baloch identity emerges
- Changes since 1947
- Too rich to be left alone
- CPEC and Balochistan
- The secession question
- The way forward
o Part Four: Five Big Questions
9. Was Partition worth the price?
- The no-Pakistan option
- Socialist utopia rejected
- Mobilizing the Muslim masses
- The winners
- The losers
- The cobra effect
10. What is the ideology of Pakistan - and why does it matter?
- Ideology defined
- Hindutva ideology
- Pakistan ka matlab kya?
- The weaponization of ideology
- Resolving the ideology conundrum
11. Why couldn’t Pakistan become an Islamic state?
- Warmup: a Christian state
- Who speaks for Islam?
- Qur’an and Islamic state
- Islamic scholars on the Islamic state
- Model I: The Medina state
- Model II: Maudoodi’s Islamic state
- Model III: The Taliban state
- The caliphate’s undying appeal
- The ummah and pan-Islamism
- What created political Islam?
- What if Pakistan becomes an Islamic sharia state?
- Is a liberal sharia state possible?
12. Why is Pakistan a praetorian state?
- The Establishment defined
- Bankrupt political class
- A once apolitical army
- America’s junior partner
- Strong men make weak countries
- Wars of choice
- Cross-border jihad - a failed experiment
- Courting the blasphemy-busters
- India under martial law?
13. Identity crisis: I’m Pakistani but what am I?
- Inventing an ancient Pakistan
- Telling Hindu from Muslim
- State imposed identity
- Cultural orphans
- The first Pakistani
- Arab Wannabe Syndrome
- My name is Ertugrul
- Citizens and subjects
- Price of prejudice
- The overseas Pakistani
- Folks: here’s what I really am!
o Part Five: Looking Ahead
14. Three imminent physical perils
- Climate change
- Population bomb
- Nuclear war
- Prognosis up to 2047
15. The paths travelled post-1971
- Experiment One - Vengeance
- Experiment Two - Nizam-e-Mustafa
- Experiment Three - Enlightened moderation
- Experiment Four - Hybrid regime
- Why the experiments failed
16. Replacing the Two Nation Theory
- End legalized discrimination
- Spread the wealth
- Pakistan not Punjabistan
- Uncage the women
- Give skills don’t brainwash
- Cool down Kashmir
- Send army to the barracks
- Epilogue
o Index
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I'm from Bangladesh. I was watching all your videos to gain different perspective of thought. Interesting and informative video on Pakistan.
a very comprehensive discussion. Very pertinent, relevant, and thought-provoking questions by Mr. Azar and well considered, convincing replies by Prof Hoodbhoy..
Just one question- whats the use of these interviews?? Is it to raise awareness in the west regarding pakistan ?.? Or to educate pakistani regading pakistan's history??
If later is the case then shouldn't thismbe happening in urdu
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Excellent piece of discussion. A True scientist who essentially deals in tracing roots of physical facts can well foray in to History. History.
Rosita Armytage is the name of that author that respected PH is trying to recall. Her book is wonderful. Plus add Prof Stephen Lyon's book on Political Kinship.
Sir,there are 2 communities living side by side; a westernized elite and army, and a salwar kamiz community.Alignment then becomes important.
Fascinating conversation. Thank you both.
Please mention the background music played at the very start, in the Description.
India also raised Paramilitary forces like CRPF, BSF of nearly equal size and put them under home ministry to balance the power equation.
No comments. Such a good UA-cam channel.
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Assalamualaikum sir today I read your article which has been published in dawn news . It was interesting but I have a question . As you've mentioned in that article about shia sunni conflict of 2013, approximately before 10 years . I agree with it . But currently yesterday another clash broke out between shia and sunni . Apart from security as pretext of state surveillance this conflict also pave way for more security because the shia sect claims that we well open the border and invite India for our help. What do you think about this? Don't you think that this conflict is created by military or the main reason behind this are clergy?
Why the East Pak elections of 1954 not discussed! Which Shere Bangla swept
Pakistan military has enjoyed pocket governments since 75 years . Through all these years we could not make anyone accountable . True that we can not open death squads like China or Iran this time but surely we can pressure through social media groups and professional organizations to pressure those pocket governments to act upon two things . 1 Any public office holders post must be ended immediately with no perks if he is caught in corruption . 2 Any soldier who takes oath to defend his country with his blood if he is caught in corruption that means he is a traitor and should be treated accordingly .
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Pakistan Prakriti is Sariya
India on moon now. Indian economy will be 3 Rd rank with in 4 year's.