The Pakistan Paradox: Instability and Resilience by Christophe Jaffrelot

The Pakistan Paradox: Instability and Resilience

Christophe Jaffrelot

688 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging emotional informative medium-paced
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Pakistan was born as the creation of elite Urdu-speaking Muslims who sought to govern a state that would maintain their dominance. After rallying non-Urdu speaking leaders around him, Jinnah imposed a unitary definition of the new nation state tha...

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