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

Ayesha Jalal analyses the dialectic between state construction and political processes in Pakistan in the first decade of the country's independence.

Ayesha Jalal (Author)

9780521051842, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 3 December 2007

380 pages
21.6 x 14 x 2.4 cm, 0.494 kg

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 system in the 'cold war' era combined with regional and domestic factors to mould the structure of the Pakistani state. The study concludes by placing the state and political developments in Pakistan since 1958 within a conceptual framework. It will be read by historians of South Asia and by students and specialists of comparative politics and political economy.

Preface
List of abbreviations
Map of Pakistan
Introduction
1. The demand for Pakistan, 1940–1947
2. Pakistan's share of the spoils
3. Constructing the state
4. Wielding state power: politicians, bureaucrats and generals
5. Breaking down the political system, 1954–1958
6. State and society in the balance: Islam as ideology and culture
7. The state of martial rule, 1958 to the present: towards a conceptual framework
Glossary
Select bibliography
Index.

Subject Areas: Postwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000 [HBLW3], General & world history [HBG]