Understanding Pakistan: Emerging Voices from India is the outcome of a national seminar for research scholars on Pakistan organized by the Centre for Pakistan Studies at the MMAJ Academy of International Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi. The aim of the seminar was to explore how young minds in India view Pakistan, the quintessential ‘enemy’ country or the ‘other’ of India. The range of topics included issues related to Pakistan’s politics, economy, popular culture, education, environment, sectarian divide, minorities, policy towards Jammu & Kashmir and foreign relations.
The established academic discourse on Pakistan in India is largely dominated by concerns linked to security threats emanating from within Pakistan. Due to this overemphasis on security-related issues, Indian scholarship on Pakistan is considered to be highly subjective and partisan. However, in this volume, most of the young scholars distance themselves from the main thrust of Indian scholarship on Pakistan and provide a fresh perspective on Pakistan which can potentially rupture the established tradition of Indian scholarship on Pakistan. Hopefully, it will be these scholars who in the near future will be at the forefront of emerging scholarship on Pakistan in India.
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2 Pakistan through the Kaleidoscope of Modernization |
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3 Ethno-nationalism in Pakistan: The Case of Baluchistan |
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4 Ethnic Transformation of Karachi and its Implications |
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5 Environmental Movements in Pakistan: A Case Study of Mangala Dam in Mirpur |
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II Education, Media And Popular Culture |
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6 Language Controversy and Education in Pakistan |
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7 Construction of History in Pakistani Textbooks |
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8 Media Agenda Setting in Pakistan: Prospects for Socio-Political Transformation |
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9 Pakistani Women Poets and the Dynamics of Religion, Politics and Society: A Comparative Study of Kishwar Naheed and Zehra Nigah |
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10 Coke Studio: A Musical Identity |
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11 Understanding Pakistani Cinema: A Peek from Across the Border |
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III Minorities And Sectarianism |
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12 Religious Minorities in Pakistan: Aspirations and Challenges |
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13 The Blasphemy Laws and the Minorities in Pakistan |
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14 Religious Extremism and Sectarian Violence in Pakistan: Revisiting Islamization |
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IV PAKISTAN, AFGHANISTAN, US AND THE WAR ON TERROR |
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15 Pakistan's Afghan Policy: The Dynamics of Continuity and Change |
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16 Pakistan: Islamic Identity, Jihadist Upsurge and the War on Terror |
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17 War on Terror and Democracy in Pakistan |
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18 Terrorism in Pakistan and Fragile Counter-terrorism Strategy |
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19 US-Pakistan Relations: Retrospect and Prospect |
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V Pakistan And Jammu & Kashmir |
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20 Pakistan's Changing Policy on Kashmir: Dimensions and Determinants |
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21 Pakistan's Incoherent Claim on Kashmir |
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Mathew Joseph C. is Reader at the MMAJ Academy of International Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India. Before joining Jamia Millia Islamia he was with the Department of Strategic and Regional Studies (DSRS), University of Jammu, Jammu and Kashmir, India. Currently he specializes in studies related to Pakistan, South Asia and International Relations. His major publications include Ethnic Conflict in Bhutan (1999) and Pakistan in a Changing Strategic Context (2004), which he co-edited with Ajay Darshan Behera.
