#5 of 16: PAKISTAN: ORIGINS, IDENTITY, AND FUTURE

Pervez Hoodbhoy in conversation with Shaheryar Azhar. #5 of 16 episodes.

Jinnah: A Man Of High Tastes
Remanufacturing Jinnah
Was Jinnah Liberal Or Conservative
Why Jinnah Fused Religion And Politics
Did Jinnah Have A Vision For Pakistan
Pakistan-Israel And Jinnah-Ben Gurion

The international edition (Routledge) of this book is available from: https://www.amazon.com/Pakistan-Perve... , and the local (Pakistani) version from:
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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