Description |
1 online resource |
Series |
South Asia in motion |
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South Asia in motion.
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Contents |
Introduction : masters, not friends -- Politics as process in Okara military farms -- The afterlife of colonial infrastructure -- What remains buried under property? -- Movement and mobilization -- Solidarities, fault lines, and the scale of struggle -- Coda : the ethics of staying |
Summary |
In Masters Not Friends, Mubbashir Rizvi lends a historical and ethnographic perspective to the rise of one of the largest, most successful land rights movements in South Asia, the Anjuman Mazarin Punjab (AMP), who, against all odds, successfully resisted the Pakistani military and made a case for their moral right to farmland. The case of AMP provides a unique lens through which to examine state and society relations in Pakistan, and bridge literatures from subaltern studies, military power, colonial technology and governance, and the language of claim-making. More broadly, Rizvi offers a glim |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 15, 2019) |
Subject |
Peasants -- Political activity -- Pakistan -- Punjab
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Land tenure -- Pakistan -- Punjab
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Land reform -- Pakistan -- Punjab
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Social movements -- Pakistan -- Punjab
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Civil-military relations -- Pakistan -- Punjab
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
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Civil-military relations
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Land reform
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Land tenure
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Peasants -- Political activity
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Social movements
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Pakistan -- Punjab
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2018037789 |
ISBN |
9781503608771 |
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1503608778 |
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