Politics, Landlords and Islam in Pakistan

ISBN-13: 9780815392989 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 192 str.

Nicolas Martin

Opis

Politics, Landlords and Islam in Pakistan explores the linkages between politics, religion, class, and caste in politics in rural Pakistan. It documents how landlords continue to wield arbitrary and despotic power over much of Pakistan’s rural population in the 21st century, and how participatory democracy has been subverted and has largely benefitted rural elites.

Spis treści

Foreword. Acknowledgements. Introduction 1. Setting 2. Debt and Bondage 3. Electoral Politics and the Reproduction of Inequality 4. The Enemy of My Enemy is My Friend 5. Elections and Devolution 6. Islam, Selflessness and Prosperity 7. Conclusion. Bibliography. Index

O autorze

Nicolas Martin is Senior Research Associate at University College London.