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Intro — Half-Title Page — Title Page — Copyright — Dedication — Contents — Acknowledgments — 1 Introduction — Indian Muslims and the Politics of Representation — Muslim Nationalism in the Political Arena — A "Maimed, Mutilated and Moth-eaten Pakistan"–Communism and Muslim Nationalism — 2 Consolidating the Nation-State: East Bengal and the Politics of National Culture — The Contradictions of Independence — The Trouble with East Bengal — "Muslim" Urdu versus "Hindu" Bangla — The State of the Muslim League — Producing the Law-and-Order Society — "One Unit" and the Politics of Parity — 3 Post-Partition Literary Politics: The Progressives versus the Nationalists — The Progressive Writers Association — The New "National Question" — The Progressives Throw Down the Gauntlet — The Discourse of Loyalty — Literature, Partition and "Nation-building" — The Iron Hand in the Velvet Glove — 4 Ayub Khan’s Decade of Development and its Cultural Vicissitudes — The Rise of the "Establishment Writer" — Cold War Literary Trends — Managing Islam — The Anti-Ayub Movement — Anti-Communist Propaganda and the Attack on "Islamic Socialism" — The Nation of Islam? — The Problematics of Pakistani Culture — 5 From Bhutto’s Authoritarian Populism to Zia’s Military Theocracy — Cozying up to the Gulf States — Culture and Ideology Under Bhutto — A Right-wing Movement and a Coup — "Pakistan ka matlab kya? Phaansi, kore, General Zia!" — Restoring the status quo ante — The Nizam-i Mustafa — Challenges to the Regime — Culture and Ideology Under Zia — Islam and the Military — 6 The Long Shadow of Zia: Women, Minorities and the Nation-State — Women and/as Property — Erasing the Non-Muslim "Other" — Epilogue The Neoliberal Security State — "Jithe vekho faujañ ee faujañ" — The State of Progressive Politics — Notes — References — Index