#10 of 16: PAKISTAN: ORIGINS, IDENTITY, AND FUTURE
#10 of 16: PAKISTAN: ORIGINS, IDENTITY, AND FUTURE
-- Two Nation Theory - the Hindutva version
-- Bharatvarsha - who is a Hindu?
-- An unsettled question - who is a Muslim?
-- What is the ideology of Pakistan?
-- Pakistan ka matlab kya?
-- Should Pakistan and India reunite?
The international edition (Routledge) of this book is available from: www.amazon.com... , and the local (Pakistani) version from:
foliobooks.pk/...
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
o Front cover endorsement by Noam Chomsky
o Back cover endorsements
o Acknowledgments
o About the author
o Foreword by Christophe Jaffrelot
o Why this Book?
o Charting the Labyrinth
- Myths of a nation’s origin
- Exclusivism as philosophy
- Was Partition accidental?
- The book’s expeditionary map (Parts I-V)
o Part One: Long Before The Two Nation Idea
1. Identity formation in medieval India
- The herd instinct
- India without nations
- The Sanskrit controversy
- Muslim invasions
- Mughal era purifiers of Islam
- Conclusion
2. The British reinvent India
- Colonialism quietly sneaks in
- The Great Mutiny - a watershed
- Demoralized Muslim ashrafiyya
- Exception: the United Provinces
- The Muslim predicament
- Modernity impacts Muslims
- Modernity impacts Hindus
- Ways begin to part
o Part Two: A Closer Look At Pakistan’s Three Founder-Heroes
3. Founder I: the lonely modernizer
- Early years
- It’s okay to eat mangos
- Metamorphosis to modernity
- Siding with the British
- An unabashed elitist
- The non-communal Sir Syed
- Sir Syed communalizes
- Sir Syed’s mixed legacy
4. Founder II: premier poet-preacher-politician
- Everyone loves Iqbal
- Biographical sketch
- Philosopher or just philosophical?
- Iqbal uses languages selectively
- Iqbal on faith versus reason
- Iqbal’s physics/math criticisms
- Iqbal’s “higher” communalism
- Iqbal on women
- Iqbal on theocracy
- Iqbal on blasphemy
- Iqbal and Sir Syed compared
5. Founder III: liberal-secular-visionary?
- Did Jinnah have a plan?
- Anticipating dependence
- Did Jinnah not want Pakistan?
- Jinnah - the man
- Did Jinnah want secularism?
- Jinnah fuses politics with religion
- Jinnah and the Islamic state
- Jinnah’s Shia problem
- A master tactician not strategist
6. Jinnah trounces his Muslim opponents
- Maududi - Jinnah’s nemesis
- Azad - the prescient cleric
- Bacha Khan - the peaceful Pathan
- Who won, who lost?
o Part Three: Postnatal Blues
7. Stubborn angularities I: Bengal
- A snapshot of history
- Mocking Bangla
- The road to separation
- Punjab still doesn’t want to know why
- Bangladesh overtakes Pakistan
- Final reflections
8. Stubborn angularities II: Balochistan
- A shotgun wedding
- Baloch identity emerges
- Changes since 1947
- Too rich to be left alone
- CPEC and Balochistan
- The secession question
- The way forward
o Part Four: Five Big Questions
9. Was Partition worth the price?
- The no-Pakistan option
- Socialist utopia rejected
- Mobilizing the Muslim masses
- The winners
- The losers
- The cobra effect
10. What is the ideology of Pakistan - and why does it matter?
- Ideology defined
- Hindutva ideology
- Pakistan ka matlab kya?
- The weaponization of ideology
- Resolving the ideology conundrum
11. Why couldn’t Pakistan become an Islamic state?
- Warmup: a Christian state
- Who speaks for Islam?
- Qur’an and Islamic state
- Islamic scholars on the Islamic state
- Model I: The Medina state
- Model II: Maudoodi’s Islamic state
- Model III: The Taliban state
- The caliphate’s undying appeal
- The ummah and pan-Islamism
- What created political Islam?
- What if Pakistan becomes an Islamic sharia state?
- Is a liberal sharia state possible?
12. Why is Pakistan a praetorian state?
- The Establishment defined
- Bankrupt political class
- A once apolitical army
- America’s junior partner
- Strong men make weak countries
- Wars of choice
- Cross-border jihad - a failed experiment
- Courting the blasphemy-busters
- India under martial law?
13. Identity crisis: I’m Pakistani but what am I?
- Inventing an ancient Pakistan
- Telling Hindu from Muslim
- State imposed identity
- Cultural orphans
- The first Pakistani
- Arab Wannabe Syndrome
- My name is Ertugrul
- Citizens and subjects
- Price of prejudice
- The overseas Pakistani
- Folks: here’s what I really am!
o Part Five: Looking Ahead
14. Three imminent physical perils
- Climate change
- Population bomb
- Nuclear war
- Prognosis up to 2047
15. The paths travelled post-1971
- Experiment One - Vengeance
- Experiment Two - Nizam-e-Mustafa
- Experiment Three - Enlightened moderation
- Experiment Four - Hybrid regime
- Why the experiments failed
16. Replacing the Two Nation Theory
- End legalized discrimination
- Spread the wealth
- Pakistan not Punjabistan
- Uncage the women
- Give skills don’t brainwash
- Cool down Kashmir
- Send army to the barracks
- Epilogue
o Index
Пікірлер: 25
wow how came u ppl come to conclusion by only one regime of BJp India is hindutv@ democracy...just wow ..how this ppl jaundised toward secular democracy of india by just one bjp rule ...come on u ppl r from theocratic I$lamic state ..sorry india still and will remain secular but will keep its h!ndu traditions alive
Salutations to Pervez Hoodbhoy Sahab. This concludes first ten episodes of this very interesting interaction with Azhar Sahab. Nice to see some honest realist intelligent people trying to make sense of where people of Pakistan are, how they reached here and what are the options looking ahead. Have been following most of the interactions and lecture series of Black Hole. You have contributed tremendously in our understanding of the issues facing you and where could be common areas of interest I would like to follow the discussion till its conclusion in another 6 episodes. Keep it up 👍
how peple still think we can be united.. on one hand one culture belive in proselytize and only one g0d ,gazva a hind and other side which is no such concept and more liberal culture.. what idiosyncrasy
Correct name was Lala Lajpat Rai.
I first time heard Ideology of Pakistan from Gen Nawabzada Sher Ali Khan, Minister of Information during Yahya regime, and then frm Jamaat e Islami which had opposed creation of Pakistan.
I dont know if there is any confusion in the ideology of Pakistan, it's written on the wall, Pakistan ka matlab kya "lah ila illalah" or Islam. Islam has three main ideologies: 1. Political or pan Islamism or Umma that preaches to rule the entire world and enforce sharia 2. Religious - Convert as many to Islam and hate others impose jiziya, dont be friends etc. 3. Cultural - which is very much Arabic since Muhammad was from there Someone who follows above 3 is a Pakistani. Now Lets see Hindutuva 3 principles: 1. Common Nation Rashtra - you consider yourself the people of Bharat (geographically from Himalaya to the Ocean) and this nation as your mother 2. Common Ethnicity - That you consider yourself from one of the ethnicities of Bharat like Tamil, bengali, bihari, punjabi, mallyalwi, maratha, telgu etc. etc. 3. Common Culture - that you follow your ethnic culture which includes language, rituals, arts, beliefs, philosophy, codes of manners and dress etc. overall present-day states of India...someone who follows this is Indian as per BJP or Savarkar
If Muslim community wants to establish a state with majority, it is advised in the Quran "the affairs of the Muslims are run on the basis of their mutual consultation" 42:38. This does not mean that Islam is giving you a constitution. Having a constitution is your need. You will come up with based on your needs of your time. Islam and Quran is here to prepare you for the hereafter if you want to. Quran is not a constitution. It is book of Allah to guide you for the hereafter.
in a way, all the liberal Pakistani who dont (really wanna) follow true Quran, want to speak native language like Punjabi etc., (want to) follow the culture of their lands, and consider (respect) their land as Maa, are following the Hindutva philosophy........conflict starts with the ones who took Quran too seriously and start imposing Arabic culture...
Mr Hood Bhoy is an intellectual person_creation of Pakistan does not need any research _Pakistan was created by the British Raj _there was no Pakistan movement in Sind,NWFp (KPK)and Balochistan __this Pakistan Movement existed only in UP(_even the Ulemas of Deoband and Jamat Islami in UP rejected the partition) beside among the nawabs of Bengal!! The British India library documents are there _the book written by Lord Mountbatten clearly confesses_that Pakistan was created by the British with the horrible partition of Punjab which deprived the Sikhs from their holy places beside the capital of Maharaja RanjitSingh_Lahore!! With this artificial Pakistan _Sind_KPK and Balochistan have become colonies of Punjab and are suffering at the hands of Punjabi generals!! Of Pakistan army which suffers from demographic imbalance where most of the soldiers are recruited from Punjab!! I am surprised how come this highly qualified person Mr Hood bhoy is still in Pakistan!!!!
Dr Hoodbhoy: Exploring the original history of Pakistan.
Sorry to inform both the anchors that India is the most secular country where you will find every religion flourishing they are many states where the chief ministers are from different religion and it is not at all an issue govt welfare schemes do not discriminate on caste creed or religion for the poor we in India are miles ahead on such issues
Artition was very god for india. The people of present day pakistan always joine hans with invaders in looting delhi. But for partition, afgha,pashtun, al kayda ISIS,central asians etc.would have feasted on our hard earned money. Loss of small territory was worth getting rid of these perpetual invaders. Jinnah sahib, thanks a lot tah e dil se
Sir please make it available in Pakistan the link in description for Pakistan is sold out
Pakistan zindabad forever!
All these discussions about the past and history of Pakistan is quite frivolous. It just doesn't make any sense. What should be discussed is how to take Pakistan out of the complete mess it is finding itself in. All you intellectuals of Pakistan is simply wasting a lot of time when the country is in a seemingly inextricable situation.
Don't be half read when you write about some thing or someone. Sawarkar was and is controversial but he was not that influential as this making him to be. E was part of revolutionary strand. Before writing about controversial man read about him in whole not in bits and pieces. About Dalit he was the one who initiated lot of reform for the first time. He was beef eater and he was great Marathi poet.
Gill sb, jinko keh rahe, they socalled taqatwars damn care about ppl. Don't know in which state of mind they hv gone, certainly not for Pakistanis.
❤
Lala Laj pat rai