| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
South Asia in motion
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South Asia in motion.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Peasants -- Political activity -- Pakistan -- Punjab.
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Peasants -- Political activity. |
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Pakistan -- Punjab. |
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Peasants. |
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Land tenure -- Pakistan -- Punjab.
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Land tenure. |
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Land reform -- Pakistan -- Punjab.
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Land reform. |
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Social movements -- Pakistan -- Punjab.
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Social movements. |
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Civil-military relations -- Pakistan -- Punjab.
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Civil-military relations. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Subject |
Social movements. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Rizvi, Mubbashir A. (Mubbashir Abbas). Ethics of staying. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2019 9781503608092 (DLC) 2018033656 |
| ISBN |
9781503608771 (electronic book) |
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1503608778 (electronic book) |
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9781503608092 (hardcover ; alkaline paper) |
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