Pakistan Failure in National Integration
রচনা: রওনক জাহান (অন্যান্য)
Rounaq Jahan examines how Pakistan’s pursuit of economic growth and centralised state power weakened political participation and helped turn Bengali demands for autonomy into a struggle for independence.
এই বই সম্পর্কে
Why did a state created in the name of unity fail to hold its two wings together? Rounaq Jahan approaches Pakistan’s disintegration through the choices of its ruling elites, with particular attention to Ayub Khan’s regime. Her study connects apparently promising policies and institutional reforms with the political crisis that preceded Bangladesh’s emergence. The central distinction is between building a powerful state and building a political community. Jahan argues that economic growth and administrative consolidation were pursued while democratic institutions remained weak. Bengalis were excluded from national decisions, and demands for autonomy developed into a movement for independence. For readers of South Asian political history, the book offers an argument about participation, legitimacy and national integration. It places the breakdown of Pakistan within the relationship between governing institutions and the people whose claims they failed to accommodate.
বইয়ের বিস্তারিত
- সংস্করণ
- 6th impression 2023
- ভাষা
- ইংরেজি
- প্রকাশক
- The University Press Limited
- প্রকাশের বছর
- 2023
- পৃষ্ঠা
- ২৪২
- ISBN-13
- 9789845062275