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...An impressive, detailed, chronologically organized account of the history of Pakistan`s first half century. The great merit of Talbot`s analysis is two fold: his success in bringing a historian`s perspective to the brief history of independent Pakistan, a period usually left to political scientists, and the guiding principles - those of a political liberal- which shape his judgements of the state`s successive regimes.Implicit in Talbopt`s sophisticated and thoroughly researched account is the conviction that Pakistan`s political life has been shaped less by Islam than by heritage of the colonial state and by the continuing domination of a weakly institutionalized political culture.
Talbot`s book will be valued not only for its narrative but for the helpful supporting apparatus, which includes charts, a glossary, and biographical notes on leading figures.
CONTENTS :- PART I - THE HISTORICAL INHERITANCE - (a) Pakistan: Land, Society and Economy (b) Colonial Rule, Authoritarianism and Regional History in North-West India (c) The Pakistan Movement: Its Dynamics and Legacies (d) Picking up the Pieces:Pakistan, 1947-49
PART II - THE DESTRUCTION OF PAKISTAN`S DEMOCRACY AND UNITY - (a) The Destruction of Democracy in Pakistan (b) Solon amoong the Subalterns (c) Things Fall Apart.
PART III - FROM BHUTTO TO ZIA - (a) People`s Power:Hopes and Impediments (b) Islam Changes Everything?
PART IV - EVER-DECREASING CIRCLES: PAKISTAN POLITICS SINCE 1988 - (a) Democracy Restored? Pakistan Politics 1988-93 (b) Democracy in Crisis: Pakistan Politics 1993-98
CONCLUSION
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Pages : 475
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