The promise of power : the origins of democracy in India and autocracy in Pakistan / Maya Tudor.

By:

Tudor, Maya Jessica, 1975-

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, [2013]Description: 1 online resource (254 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9781107333512
1107333512
9781107336834
110733683X
9781139519076
1139519077
9781107335172
1107335175

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Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

320.9/54 23

LOC classification:

DS480.84 .T83 2013eb

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Contents:

1. How India institutionalised democracy & Pakistan promoted autocracy -- 2. The social origins of pro- and anti-democratic movements (1885-1919) -- 3. Imagining and institutionalizing new nations (1919-1947) -- 4. Organizing alliances (1919-1947) -- 5. Freedom at midnight and divergent democracies (1947-1958) -- 6. The institutionalization of alliances in India, Pakistan, and beyond.

Summary: An examination of how, despite similar historical contexts, India became a stable democracy post-independence, whilst Pakistan became an unstable autocracy.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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An examination of how, despite similar historical contexts, India became a stable democracy post-independence, whilst Pakistan became an unstable autocracy.

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