Constructing Pakistan: Foundational Texts and the Rise of Muslim National Identity, 1857- 1947

by Masood Ashraf Raja

Constructing Pakistan addresses the previously neglected aspect of postcolonial and historical engagement with the creation and construction of Indian Muslim national identity before the partition of India in 1947. Masood Ashraf Raja's main assertion, challenging the conventional and
postcolonial appraisals of the Indian national history, is that the Indian Muslim particular identity and Muslim exceptionalism preceded the rise of Congress or Gandhian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195478118
• ISBN13: 9780195478112
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 300 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.7" x 8.8"