Military and Denied Development in the Pakistani Punjab - An Eroding Social Consensus

Informationen zum Autor Shahrukh Rafi Khan and Aasim Sajjad Akhtar with Sohaib Bodla Klappentext This book explores retrogressive agrarian interventions by Pakistan's military in the Punjab and details the social resentment and resistance it has initiated. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. The Military and Economic Development; 2. Punjab's State-Society Consensus on the Military's Dominance and Economic Role; 3. Research Design, Method, Institutional Issues and Scope of the Military's Land Acquisitions; 4. The Military's Agrarian Land Acquisitions: High Handedness and Social Resentment; 5. From Social Resentment to Social Resistance; 6. Bahria Town: A Military-Related Real Estate Venture; 7. The Military as Landlord in the Pakistani Punjab: Case Study of the Okara Farms; 8. Guardians No More? The Breakdown of the Consensus; Glossary; Index

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• Authors: Aasim Sajjad Akhtar, Shahrukh Rafi Khan, Shahrukh Rafi Sajjad Akhtar Khan, Aasim Sajjad Akhtar
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.11.2014
• EAN: 9781783082896
• ISBN: 978-1-78308-289-6
• No. of pages: 178
• Series: Anthem Frontiers of Global Pol
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Miscellaneous