TY - BOOK AU - Jaffrelot, Christophe AU - Schoch, Cynthia TI - The Pakistan Paradox Instability and Resilience SN - 9780143426837 U1 - 954.91 PY - 2016/// CY - Gurgaon PB - Penguin Books India Pvt. Ltd. KW - Pakistan - History - Politics and Government N1 - Introduction Three Wars, Three Constitutions and Three Coups Between India and Afghanistan: Caught in a Pincer Movement? The Pakistani Paradox Part I: Nationalism Without a Nation-and Even Without a People? 1. The Socio-Ethnic Origins of Indian Muslim Separatism: The Reform Phase (1857-1906) The Crushing of the 1857 Revolt and Reactions of the Muslim Elite From the Aligarh Movement to the Muslim League Muslimhood as a Communal Ideology 2. An Elite in Search of a State-and a Nation (1906-1947) Muslim Politics beyond the North Indian Elite Jinnah, the Congress and the Muslim-majority Provinces Majority Muslims versus Minority Muslims Jinnah's Strategy The 1946 Elections: What Turning Point? 3. Islamic State or a Collection of Ethnic Groups? From One Partition to the Next Jinnah's Nation-State: Between "The Poison Of Provincialism" and the Indian Threat Stillborn Federalism and the Unresolved Ethno-linguistic Issue Muhajirs and Punjabis, Founding Fathers of a Unitary and Centralised State Bengali Separatism: Mujibur Rahman, the Two-Economy Theory and the Centre's Overreaction 4. Five Ethnic Groups for One Nation: Between Support and Alienation The Pakistanisation of Sindh The Baloch Self-Determination Movement The Pashtuns, from Pashtunistan to Pakhtunkwa Muhajir Militancy-and its Limitations National Integration through Federalism and Regionalisation of Politics? Part II: Neither Democracy Nor Autocracy? 5. Impossible Democracy or Impossible Democrats? An Initial Democratic Design Aborted (1947-1958) Democratisation, Separatism and Authoritarianism (1969-1977) Civilians under Influence-and Prone to Lawlessness (1988-1999) A Democratic "Transition" without Transfer of Power? (2007-2013) The 2013 Elections: What "New Pakistan"? The 2014 Crisis: Imran Khan, Qadri, Nawaz Sharif and the Army 6. Variable-Geometry Military Dictatorship Ayub Khan, an "Enlightened Dictator"? Zia: A Modern Tyrant Musharraf, a New Ayub Khan? 7. The Judiciary, the Media and NGOs: In Search of Opposition Forces The Judges: From Submission to Control? The Press: A Fifth Estate? The Opposite of Tocqueville: Democratisation without Civil Society? The Election Commission-a Work in Progress Part III: Islam: Territorial Ideology or Political Religion? 8. From Jinnah's Secularism to Zia's Islamisation Policy What Islam, for What Policy? (1947-1969) Islamisation and the Politics of Legitimation (1969-1988) 9. Jihadism, Sectarianism and Talibanism: From Military/​Mullah Cooperation to 9/​11 The Rise of Sectarianism or the Invention of a New Enemy Within From One Jihad to Another: From Afghanistan to Kashmir and Back The Taliban: the Price of "Friendship" The 11 September 2001 Attacks: A Watershed Moment Musharraf and the Islamists: A Selective Break 10. Toward Civil War? The State vs. (some) Islamists and the Islamists vs. the Minorities The Islamists, a Social and Political Force The State's Double Game in Pashtun Areas-and the Islamists' Measured Response The Rise of Extremes The Army: Accomplice and/​or Out of Its Depth? Punjab, New Land of Conquest? Minorities under Attack Conclusion One Syndrome, Three Contradictions The Fourth Dimension: Elites Backed by External Support After 16 December 2014: What "Post-Peshawar" Pakistan ER -