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C I V I L I Z A T I O N AND MODERNITYNarrating the Creation of Pakistan
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CIVILIZATION AND MODERNITYNarrating the Creation of PakistanDAViD GiLMARTiN
DAVID GILMARTIN is Professor of History, North Carolina University, Raleigh, NC, USA.
The story of India’s partition and the creation of Pakistan remains even today a subject of considerable scholarly contention despite the substantial corpus of works on the subject. Focusing on the Punjab during the colonial era, this col-lection of eleven essays frames the story within the tensions of modernity and civilization.David Gilmartin casts Pakistan’s story against the power of the myriad local iden-tities that played a powerful role in shaping local life in colonial Punjab. The ties of genealogy, whether associated with local sufi authority, or with the local bira-dari, provided the keys to local social order in the province. It was against this backdrop that an imagined moral community linked to Islam gained currency in the 20th century in the new spheres of publication and debate in Punjab’s cities.Civilization and Modernity provides a lucid and incisive narration of the civilizational crisis in the Punjab, rooted in the tensions between local life and larger civilizational imaginings which led to Pakistan’s emergence as a newsymbol of identity. The book will be mandatory reading for students and scholars of modern Indian history and politics, anthropology and South Asian studies. It will also be compelling reading for the informed lay reader interested in the mak-ing of ‘modern’ South Asia.
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