An Intellectual History of Pakistan : Religion and politics

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The course will introduce students to significant events in Pakistan’s history, critical foundational moments, and key religious-political texts. To make the course theoretically rigorous, I have conceptualized it in a broader framework of intellectual history. My focus would be on probing an interrelated set of questions about class, postcoloniality, Cold War politics, worker mobilizations, Political Islam, a non-Western history of citizenship and democracy, decoloniality, and feminist movements. Thus, the course’s focus is not on a chronology of events in Pakistan but on providing a reading praxis and a form of inquiry with which we should understand the postcolonial histories of the global South.