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Ali Murad Khan, --- b. 1815 --- Hunting --- rais of upper Sind, --- Social life and customs --- Indus River Valley --- Sindh (Pakistan)

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Les dynamiques socio-politiques du Pakistan sont souvent résumées à l'islamisme, au terrorisme, et aux incursions du pouvoir militaire dans la vie civile. Ce livre propose une vision différente de l'histoire politique du Pakistan à travers le cas du nationalisme ethnique de la province du Sindh, située au sud-est du pays. Ce mouvement et son discours identitaire sont singuliers à au moins deux égards : d'une part, le discours nationaliste sindhi conçoit l'appartenance à l'islam soufi comme un marqueur ethnique qui distinguerait les Sindhis des autres musulmans du Pakistan ; d'autre part, le nationalisme sindhi puise ses racines dans des mouvements et idéologies de gauche, qui dénoncent le conservatisme centralisateur du nationalisme officiel promu par l'Etat pakistanais. Depuis les années 1950, le mouvement nationaliste du Sindh conteste l'Etat central et réclame une plus grande autonomie pour la province. Certains groupes vont jusqu'à formuler des demandes séparatistes à partir des années 1970. Afin de comprendre le rapport des Sindhis à l'Etat du Pakistan, cet ouvrage retrace une socio-histoire de la mobilisation nationaliste et examine la construction des marqueurs identitaires qui est au coeur du discours nationaliste. Le cas du nationalisme sindhi au Pakistan illustre comment un mouvement identitaire peut contribuer significativement aux dynamiques socio-politiques sans pour autant atteindre ses objectifs.

Nationalisme --- Group identity --- Sindhi (peuple d'Asie du Sud) --- Identité collective --- Politique et gouvernement --- Political aspects. --- Identité collective. --- Aspect politique --- Sindh (Pakistan) --- History --- Autonomy and independence movements.

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In 2009, more than 40,000 people died prematurely in Sindh, Pakistan because of an illness associated with an environmental health risk. This means that almost one of every five deaths that occurred that year was caused by environmental factors. Loss of natural resources and impacts from natural disasters also represent development challenges. Increased salinity and waterlogging result in loss of agricultural crops. In addition, hydro-meteorological hazards recurrently affect Sindh, as illustrated by the devastating effects of the 2010 and 2011 floods. For Sindh's population, these problems mean pain and suffering, and reduced opportunities for economic advancement. The costs of all these phenomena are equivalent to 10% of Sindh's Gross Domestic Product. Climate change may exacerbate these challenges. Sindh's environmental and climate change problems call for urgent responses. A number of feasible interventions could be carried out to address the categories of environmental degradation that have the highest impacts on Sindh's population. Many of those interventions have positive benefit-cost ratios, meaning that every rupee invested in them would result in health and social benefits worth more than one rupee. Addressing these challenges also calls for targeted institutional strengthening and policy improvements, particularly after the 18th Constitutional Amendment devolved environmental management responsibilities to provincial governments. The underlying goal of this book is to facilitate and stimulate sharing of information on these phenomena, and to provide an interdisciplinary framework for bringing about improved environmental conditions in Sindh. It includes a methodology that enables the identification of environmental and climate change priority problems; the analysis of interventions to address such problems; the establishment of a social learning mechanism to continuously improve Sindh's responses and build resilience in the face of climate variability and change; and opportunities for the potential involvement of different stakeholder groups to decisively tackle climate change and deteriorating environmental conditions.

Poor -- Pakistan -- Sindh. --- Poverty -- Pakistan -- Sindh. --- Sindh (Pakistan) -- Economic conditions. --- Sustainability -- Pakistan -- Sindh. --- Sustainable development --- Poverty --- Poor --- Economic History --- Business & Economics --- Sustainability --- Sindh (Pakistan) --- Economic conditions. --- Destitution --- Disadvantaged, Economically --- Economically disadvantaged --- Impoverished people --- Low-income people --- Pauperism --- Poor, The --- Poor people --- Sustainability science --- Economic conditions --- Wealth --- Basic needs --- Begging --- Subsistence economy --- Persons --- Social classes --- Human ecology --- Social ecology --- Sind (Pakistan)

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This book demonstrates how a local elite built upon colonial knowledge to produce a vernacular knowledge that maintained the older legacy of a pluralistic Sufism. As the British reprinted a Sufi work, Shah Abd al-Latif Bhittai's Shah jo risalo, in an effort to teach British officers Sindhi, the local intelligentsia, particularly driven by a Hindu caste of professional scribes (the Amils), seized on the moment to promote a transformation from traditional and popular Sufism (the tasawuf) to a Sufi culture (Sufiyani saqafat). Using modern tools, such as the printing press, and borrowing European vocabulary and ideology, such as Theosophical Society, the intelligentsia used Sufism as an idiomatic matrix that functioned to incorporate difference and a multitude of devotional traditions—Sufi, non-Sufi, and non-Muslim—into a complex, metaphysical spirituality that transcended the nation-state and filled the intellectual, spiritual, and emotional voids of postmodernity.

Sindh (Pakistan) --- Social life and customs. --- Sind (Pakistan) --- Ethnology. --- Epistemology. --- Asia—History. --- Religion and sociology. --- Social Anthropology. --- History of South Asia. --- Social Aspects of Religion. --- Religion and society --- Religious sociology --- Society and religion --- Sociology, Religious --- Sociology and religion --- Sociology of religion --- Sociology --- Epistemology --- Theory of knowledge --- Philosophy --- Psychology --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Asia --- History. --- Knowledge, Theory of.

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"Based on a long interview of Altaf Husain, the present day Chief of the now Muttahida Qaumi Movement (previously Mohajir Qaumi Movement), this book is an account of the protagonist's life and political career up to the year 1988. It provides illuminating insights into the rise of a powerful political party and its charismatic leader. Husain's early encounters with prejudice against a straggling group of immigrants from India known as 'Mohajirs', his disillusionment with religious parties and their claim of impartiality towards all fellow Muslims soon led him to create a robust and coherent political party from the amorphous group of people who were given the name of 'Mohajir'. Not only is this book invaluable as an early blueprint of the MQM's future development and concerns, it is also an impressive record of how an individual, with the help of a small group of friends, generated political consciousness among people who felt powerless in their adopted country, and helped them to stand up confidently for their rights-and later, for the rights of other unprivileged people."--Publisher's website.

Immigrants --- Muhajir (Pakistani people) --- Politicians --- Politics and government. --- #SBIB:328H56 --- Statesmen --- Mohajir (Pakistani people) --- Ethnology --- Emigrants --- Foreign-born population --- Foreign population --- Foreigners --- Migrants --- Persons --- Aliens --- Politics and government --- Instellingen en beleid: Pakistan --- Ḥusain, Alt̤āf, --- Alt̤āf Ḥusain, --- Hussain, Altaf, --- الطاف حسّين، --- حسين، الطاف، --- Muhājir Qaumī Mūvmenṭ. --- Em. Kiyū. Em. --- MQM --- M.Q.M. --- Mohajir Qaumi Movement --- Muhājir Qaumī Mūvmanṭ --- Muttahida Quami Movement --- Pakistan --- Sindh (Pakistan)