Creating a New Medina by Venkat Dhulipala HARDBACK 9781107052123

Creating a New Medina\nby Venkat Dhulipala\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Venkat Dhulipala\nTitle: Creating a New Medina\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Asian history\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nPublication year: 2015\nISBN-13: 9781107052123\nISBN-10: 1107052122\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThis book examines how the idea of Pakistan was articulated and debated in the public sphere and how popular enthusiasm was generated for its successful achievement, especially in the crucial province of UP (now Uttar Pradesh) in the last decade of British colonial rule in India. It argues that Pakistan was not a simply a vague idea that serendipitously emerged as a nation-state, but was popularly imagined as a sovereign Islamic State, a new Medina, as some called it. In .