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Looking at a wide selection of Pakistani novels in English, this book explores how literary texts imaginatively probe the past, convey the present, and project a future in terms that facilitate a sense of collective belonging. The novels discussed cover a range of historical movements and developments, including pre-20th century Islamic history, the 1947 partition, the 1971 Pakistani war, the Zia years, and post-9/11 Pakistan, as well as pervasive themes, including ethnonationalist tensions, the zamindari system, and conspiracy thinking. The book offers a range of representations of how and whether collective belonging takes shape, and illustrates how the Pakistani novel in English, often overshadowed by the proliferation of the Indian novel in English, complements Pakistani multi-lingual literary imaginaries by presenting alternatives to standard versions of history and by highlighting the issues English-language literary production bring to the fore in a broader Pakistani context. It goes on to look at the literary devices and themes used to portray idea, nation and state as a foundation for collective belonging. The book illustrates the distinct contributions the Pakistani novel in English makes to the larger fields of postcolonial and South Asian literary and cultural studies.

Pakistani fiction (English) --- Group identity --- Roman pakistanais (anglais) --- Identité collective --- History and criticism --- Histoire et critique --- Roman pakistanais de langue anglaise --- History and criticism. --- Identité collective --- Histoire et critique. --- Collective identity --- Community identity --- Cultural identity --- Social identity --- Identity (Psychology) --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- English fiction --- Pakistani literature (English)

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Water resources development --- Water-supply --- Management. --- Availability, Water --- Water availability --- Water resources --- Natural resources --- Public utilities --- Water utilities --- Pakistan. --- Bākistān --- Dominion of Pakistan --- Eʼeʼaahjí Naakaii Dootłʼizhí Bikéyah --- Islami Jamhuriya e Pakistan --- Islāmī Jumhūrī-ye Pākistān --- Islāmī Jumhūriyah Pākistān --- Islamic Republic of Pakistan --- Islamikē Dēmokratia tou Pakistan --- Islamische Republik Pakistan --- Islamskai͡a Respublika Pakistan --- Isli͡amska republika Pakistan --- Jamhuryat Islami Pakistan --- Pakistan --- Pākistāna --- Pakistani Islamivabariik --- Pakisutan --- Paquistan --- State of Pakistan

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Imagine the patriotic camaraderie of national day parades. How crucial is performance for the sustenance of the nation? The Performance of Nationalism considers the formation of the Indian and Pakistani nation, in the wake of the most violent chapter of its history: the partition of the subcontinent. In the process, Jisha Menon offers a fresh analysis of nationalism from the perspective of performance. Menon recuperates the manifold valences of 'mimesis' as aesthetic representation, as the constitution of a community of witnesses, and as the mimetic relationality that underlies the encounter between India and Pakistan. The particular performances considered here range from Wagah border ceremonies, to the partition theatre of Asghar Wajahat, Kirti Jain, M. K. Raina, and the cinema of Ritwik Ghatak and M. S. Sathyu. By pointing to the tropes of twins, doubles, and doppelgangers that suffuse these performances, this study troubles the idea of two insular, autonomous nation-states of India and Pakistan. In the process, Menon recovers mimetic modes of thinking that unsettle the reified categories of identity politics.

Performing arts --- Social aspects --- Political aspects --- Indic drama --- Nationalism in literature. --- Partition, Territorial, in literature. --- Partition, Territorial, in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures, Indic. --- Nationalism in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures --- East Indian motion pictures --- Indic motion pictures --- Motion pictures, East Indian --- Foreign films --- Indic literature --- History and criticism. --- India --- Pakistan --- Dominion of Pakistan --- Bākistān --- Islamic Republic of Pakistan --- Islamskai︠a︡ Respublika Pakistan --- Islami Jamhuriya e Pakistan --- Pākistāna --- پاکِستان --- Islāmī Jumhūrī-ye Pākistān --- باكستان --- Paquistan --- Пакістан --- Ісламская Рэспубліка Пакістан --- Пакистан --- Ислямска република Пакистан --- Isli︠a︡mska republika Pakistan --- Islamische Republik Pakistan --- Eʼeʼaahjí Naakaii Dootłʼizhí Bikéyah --- Pakistani Islamivabariik --- Πακιστάν --- Ισλαμική Δημοκρατία του Πακιστάν --- Islamikē Dēmokratia tou Pakistan --- Jamhuryat Islami Pakistan --- State of Pakistan --- Islāmī Jumhūriyah Pākistān --- パキスタン --- Pakisutan --- West Pakistan (Pakistan) --- History --- Influence. --- In literature. --- In motion pictures.

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A number of UN conventions and declarations (on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions and the World Heritage Conventions) can be understood as instruments of international governance to promote democracy and social justice worldwide. In Indonesia (as in many other countries), these international agreements have encouraged the self-assertion of communities that had been oppressed and deprived of their land, especially during the New Order regime (1966-1998). More than 2,000 communities in Indonesia who define themselves as masyarakat adat or “indigenous peoples” had already joined the Indigenous Peoples’ Alliance of the Archipelago” (AMAN) by 2013. In their efforts to gain recognition and self determination, these communities are supported by international donors and international as well as national NGOs by means of development programmes. In the definition of masyarakat adat, “culture” or adat plays an important role in the communities’ self-definition. Based on particular characteristics of their adat, the asset of their culture, they try to distinguish themselves from others in order to substantiate their claims for the restitution of their traditional rights and property (namely land and other natural resources) from the state. The authors of this volume investigate how differently structured communities - socially, politically and religiously - and associations reposition themselves vis-à-vis others, especially the state, not only by drawing on adat for achieving particular goals, but also dignity and a better future.

Cultural property --- Cultural property. --- Indonesia. --- Cultural heritage --- Cultural patrimony --- Cultural resources --- Heritage property --- National heritage --- National patrimony --- National treasure --- Patrimony, Cultural --- Treasure, National --- United States of Indonesia --- Republic of the United States of Indonesia --- Republik Indonesia Serikat --- R.I. (Republik Indonesia) --- RI (Republik Indonesia) --- Indonesië --- Indonezii︠a︡ --- PDRI (Pemerintah Darurat Republik Indonesia) --- Pemerintah Darurat Republik Indonesia --- Republik Indonesia --- Yinni --- Republic of Indonesia --- Republiek van Indonesië --- إندونيسيا --- Indūnīsīyā --- جمهورية إندونيسيا --- Jumhūrīyah Indūnīsīyā --- Republica d'Indonesia --- Indonezia --- Endonèsie --- İndoneziya --- İndoneziya Respublikası --- Інданезія --- Indanezii︠a︡ --- Рэспубліка Інданезія --- Rėspublika Indanezii︠a︡ --- Indonezija --- Republika Indonezija --- Индонезия --- Република Индонезия --- Republika Indonezii︠a︡ --- Indonesya --- Induonezėjė --- Society & social sciences. --- Sociology & anthropology. --- Adat law --- Tobelo (Indonesian people) --- Toraja (Indonesian people) --- Pakistan --- Indonesia --- Society & social sciences --- Anthropology --- Indigenous Peoples --- Wanna --- Toradja (Indonesian people) --- Toradjas --- Ethnology --- Halmahera (Indonesian people) --- Tobelorese (Indonesian people) --- Civil law (Adat law) --- Customary law (Islamic law) --- Dutch East Indies --- Dutch East Indies (Territory under Japanese occupation, 1942-1945) --- Indoneshia --- Indoneshia Kyōwakoku --- PDRI --- R.I. --- RI --- Bākistān --- Dominion of Pakistan --- Eʼeʼaahjí Naakaii Dootłʼizhí Bikéyah --- Islami Jamhuriya e Pakistan --- Islāmī Jumhūrī-ye Pākistān --- Islāmī Jumhūriyah Pākistān --- Islamic Republic of Pakistan --- Islamikē Dēmokratia tou Pakistan --- Islamische Republik Pakistan --- Islamskai͡a Respublika Pakistan --- Isli͡amska republika Pakistan --- Jamhuryat Islami Pakistan --- Pākistāna --- Pakistani Islamivabariik --- Pakisutan --- Paquistan --- State of Pakistan --- Adat law. --- Pakistan.