Cover; 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 NationalistsThe 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 TheocracyCozying 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