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The promise of power : the origins of democracy in India and autocracy in Pakistan
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- Creator
- Maya Tudor, University of Oxford
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 240 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 1299399940, 1316635244, 9781139519076, 9781107335172, 1107327075, 9781107332720, 1107335175, 9781107238138, 1107332729, 9781107327078, 1107336007, 9781107032965, 9781107336834, 110733683X, 9781107333512, 9781299399945, 1107238137, 1139519077, 1107333512, 9781107336001, 1107032962
- OCLC
- ocn825106424, ocn829459966
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-234) and index.
- 1. How India institutionalised democracy and 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