Fault Lines Of Nationhood

Though India and Pakistan emerged as independent nation-states sixty years ago, debates about the basis of India and Pakistani nationhod continue to reverberate through the politics of the two countries. Pakistan has been wracked by disputes over identity from its very inception. It split into two countries in 1971 when the Eastern wing broke away to form Bangladesh. It has since been wresting with issues of Punjabi dominance and Islamisation, which have put minorities of all sorts on the defensive.
About Author :
Gyandendra Pandey is Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of History at Emopry University at Atlanta, USA. He has previously Professor of Anthropology and History at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore (1998-2005) and Professor of Modern History at Delhi University (1986-1998). He was born and brought up in India and took his first degree at St. Stephen's College, Delhi. Yunas Samad is Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Director, Ethnicity Social Policy Research Centre at Bradford University in the UK. He is also Deputy Director of the Centre for South Asian Studies at Geneva University in Switzerland. Born in Lahore, he was brought up and educated in London. He won a British Academy scholarship to Oxford University where he wrote his doctoral thesis on Pakistani nationalism. He was subsequently a post-doctoral research fellow with the Rhodes Chair of Race Relations at Oxford and a research fellow at Warwick University.
Contents :
Introduction India: Mainstreams and minorities Pakistan: From Minority rights to majoritarianism