Beyond crisis : re-evaluating Pakistan / edited by Naveeda Khan.

Earlier edition has title; Crisis and beyond.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [541]-568) and index.

Introduction / Naveeda Khan -- Towards a lyric history of India / Amir R. Mufti -- The politics of commensuration : the violence of partition and the making of the Pakistani state / Tahir Hasnain Naqvi -- A real terrorist / Oskar Verkaaik -- Reimagining the 'land of the pure' : a Sufi master reclaims Islamic orthodoxy and Pakistani identity / Robert Rozehnal -- Registering crisis : ethnicity in Pakistani cinema of the 1960s and 1970s / Iftikhar Dadi -- Listening to the enemy : the Pakistan army, violence and memories of 1971 / Yasmin Saikia -- Strength of the state meets the strength of the street : the 1972 labour struggle in Karachi / Kamran Asdar Ali -- Jama'at-e-Islami Pakistan : learning from the left / Humeira Iqtidar -- The paradoxes of Ahmadiyya identity : legal appropriation of Muslim-ness and the construction of Ahmadiyya difference / Asad A. Ahmed -- Words that wound : archiving hate in the making of Hindu-Indian and Muslim-Pakistani publics in Bombay / Deepak Mehta -- Itineraries of conversion : Judaic paths to a Muslim Pakistan / Sadia Abbas -- Iqbal and Karbala / Syed Akbar Hyder -- Look who's talking now : voice and authority in Pakistani Shi'i women's gatherings / Amy Bard -- Madrasa metrics : the statistics and rhetoric of religious enrolment in Pakistan / Tahir Andrabi ... [and others] -- Uncivil politics and the appropriation of planning in Islamabad / Matthew Hull -- Mosque construction or the violence of the ordinary / Naveeda Khan -- Afterwords. Living the tensions of the state, the nation and everyday life / David Gilmartin -- Anthropology and Pakistani national imaginary / Katherine Pratt Ewing.

Through the essays in this volume, we see how the failure of the state becomes a moment to ruminate on the artificiality of this most modern construct, the failure of nationalism, an opportunity to dream of alternative modes of association, and the failure of sovereignty to consider the threats and possibilities of the realm of foreignness within the nation-state as within the self. The ambition of this volume is not only to complicate standing representations of Pakistan. It is take Pakistan out of the status of exceptionalism that its multiple crises have endowed upon it. By now, many scholars have written of how exile, migrancy, refugeedom, and other modes of displacement constitute modern subjectivities. The arguments made in the book say that Pakistan is no stranger to this condition of human immigrancy and therefore, can be pressed into service in helping us to understand our present condition.