The State of Martial Rule: The Origins of Pakistan's Political Economy of Defence

by Ayesha Jalal

Book Overview

When the British dismantled their Raj in 1947 India, as the 'successor' state, inherited the colonial unitary central apparatus whereas Pakistan, as the 'seceding' state, had no semblance of a central government. In The State of Martial Rule Ayesha Jalal analyses the dialectic between state construction and political processes in Pakistan in the first decade of the country's independence and convincingly demonstrates how the imperatives of the international...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521051843
• ISBN13: 9780521051842
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 380 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"