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Beyond Crisis Critical Asian Studies Series Editor: Veena Das Kreiger-Eisenhower Professor in Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University Critical Asian Studies is devoted to in-depth studies of emergent social and cultural phenomena in the countries of the region. While recognising the important ways in which the specifi c and often violent histories of the nation-state have infl uenced the social formations in this region, the books in this series also examine the processes of translation, exchange, boundary crossings in the linked identities and histories of the region. The authors in this series engage with social theory through ethnographically grounded research and archival work. Also in this Series Living with Violence: The Anthropology of Events and Everyday Life Roma Chatterji and Deepak Mehta ISBN 978-0-415-43080-7 Enchantments of Modernity: Empire, Nation, Globalization (Ed.) Saurabh Dube ISBN 978-0-415-44552-8 The Intimate State: Love-Marriage and the Law in Delhi Perveez Mody ISBN 978-0-415-44604-4 Settlers, Saints and Sovereigns: An Ethnography of State Formation in Western India Farhana Ibrahim ISBN 978-0-415-44556-6 Shared Histories of Modernity: China, India and the Ottoman Empire (Eds) Huri Islamog˘lu and Peter C. Perdue ISBN 978-0-415-48166-3 Beyond Crisis Re-evaluating Pakistan Editor Naveeda Khan LONDON NEW YORK NEW DELHI First published 2010 by Routledge 912–915 Tolstoy House, 15–17 Tolstoy Marg, New Delhi 110 001 Simultaneously published in the UK by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, OX14 4RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2010 Naveeda Khan Typeset by Star Compugraphics Private Limited 5–CSC, First Floor, Near City Apartments Vasundhara Enclave Delhi 110 096 Printed and bound in India by All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage and retrieval system without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library ISBN: 978-0-415-48063-5 To my parents Munawar and Shafique, my husband Bob and my children Sophie and Sulayman with my deepest gratitude vi (cid:132) Beyond Crisis Contents Glossary ix Foreword by Veena Das xv Acknowledgements xxi Introduction 1 Naveeda Khan Part I: Artifi ciality of the State 1. Towards a Lyric History of India 31 Amir R. Mufti 2. The Politics of Commensuration: The Violence of Partition and the Making of the Pakistani State 61 Tahir Hasnain Naqvi 3. A Real Terrorist 89 Oskar Verkaaik 4. Reimagining the ‘Land of the Pure’: A Sufi Master Reclaims Islamic Orthodoxy and Pakistani Identity 118 Robert Rozehnal Part II: The Diffi culty of Nationalist Visions 5. Registering Crisis: Ethnicity in Pakistani Cinema of the 1960s and 1970s 145 Iftikhar Dadi 6. Listening to the Enemy: The Pakistan Army, Violence and Memories of 1971 177 Yasmin Saikia 7. Strength of the State Meets the Strength of the Street: The 1972 Labour Struggle in Karachi 210 Kamran Asdar Ali 8. Jama’at-e-Islami Pakistan: Learning from the Left 245 Humeira Iqtidar viii (cid:132) Beyond Crisis Part III: Foreignness Within 9. The Paradoxes of Ahmadiyya Identity: Legal Appropriation of Muslim-ness and the Construction of Ahmadiyya Difference 273 Asad A. Ahmed 10. Words that Wound: Archiving Hate in the Making of Hindu-Indian and Muslim-Pakistani Publics in Bombay 315 Deepak Mehta 11. Itineraries of Conversion: Judaic Paths to a Muslim Pakistan 344 Sadia Abbas 12. Iqbal and Karbala 370 Syed Akbar Hyder Part IV: The Everyday 13. Look Who’s Talking Now: Voice and Authority in Pakistani Shi’i Women’s Gatherings 401 Amy Bard 14. Madrasa Metrics: The Statistics and Rhetoric of Religious Enrolment in Pakistan 430 Tahir Andrabi, Jishnu Das, Asim Ijaz Khwaja and Tristan Zajonc 15. Uncivil Politics and the Appropriation of Planning in Islamabad 452 Matthew Hull 16. Mosque Construction or the Violence of the Ordinary 482 Naveeda Khan Afterwords Living the Tensions of the State, the Nation and Everyday Life 521 David Gilmartin Anthropology and Pakistani National Imaginary 531 Katherine Pratt Ewing Bibliography 541 Note on the Editor 565 Notes on Contributors 566 Index 569 Glossary This is a select list of the non-English terms that appear in the articles in this book. I have given the Urdu spellings although in a few cases I have indicated the more usual spelling by means of a backslash. For a few words I have opted for the Arabic spellings as the authors privileged them. I have not attempted to standardise names across the individual articles. adab civility; comportment alim religious scholar amir ruler; commander aql intellect; sense arkan pillar; support, pl. rukn ashraf noblemen; well-born; Muslim gentry; s. of sharif auliya/awliya literally friends of God; saints; pl. of wali auqaf religious endowments; pl. of waqf awam the people azan Muslim call to prayer baraka/barakat blessing; spiritual quality transmitted by saint to his place of burial and his descendents batai division of agricultural produce among landlord and tenants biradari brotherhood; patrilineage chilla a period of 40 days demarcating such events as mourning, spiritual exercises, missionary trips, etc. dargah shrine or tomb of a reputed saint which is the object of veneration and pilgrimage dars religious lesson darsan seeing; looking; visiting a sacred shrine; worshipping in the presence of an image darud/durud benedictions; prayer in praise of the Prophet Muhammad dastan story; fable dawa/dawat invitation; missionary activity
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