Problems of governance in Pakistan are rooted in a persistently unclear and antagonistic relationship among the forces of authority, ideology and ethnicity. Based on theoretical and empirical research this book focuses on significant themes such as the oligarchic state structure dominated by the military and bureaucracy, civil society, Islam and the formation of Muslim identity in British India, constitutional traditions and their subversion by coercive policies, politics of gender, ethnicity, and Muslim nationalism versus regional nationalisms as espoused by Sindhi nationalists and the Karachi-based Muhajir Qaumi Movement (MQM).

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IFTIKHAR H. MALIK is Lecturer in History at the Bath Spa University College. His other books include: Pakistan at Fifty: Stalemate or a New Beginning; U.S.-South Asian Relations, 1940-7; U.S.-South Asia Relations, 1784-1940; The Continuing Conflict in Kashmir; Sikandar Hayat Khan: A Political Biography and Pakistan: People and Places. He has also published numerous papers in international journals and is a regular commentator on Current Muslim politics and Asian history on the BBC and VOA.

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Acknowledgements List of Tables Glossary Introduction Dilemma of Political Culture, National Integration and Constitutionalism Elite Formation, Politics of Ideology and Cooption The Supremacy of the Bureaucracy and Military in Pakistan Feudalists in Politics - 'Invisible Government' at Work State and Civil Society in Pakistan Politics of Gender in Pakistan Ethnicity, Nationalism and Nation-Building Sindh: Politics of Authority and Ethnicity The Rise of the Muhajir Qaumi Movement and Ethnic Politics in Sindh Epilogue Bibliography Index