The Promise of Pakistan

by S. Sayyid and Bobby Salman Sayyid

Book Overview

From its very inception, the basis of Pakistani nationhood and identity have been bitterly contested. Its birth tainted by the violence of partition, and its present plagued by religious extremism, some have gone so far as to say that the creation of Pakistan was a historic mistake. The Promise of Pakistan takes us beyond the conventional focus on the apparent "failure" of Pakistan, arguing that much of this perception stems from a Eurocentric, orientalist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1786994054
• ISBN13: 9781786994059
• Release Date: January 1900
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Length: 208 Pages