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Author Tudor, Maya Jessica, 1975-

Title The promise of power : the origins of democracy in India and autocracy in Pakistan / Maya Tudor
Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013
New York : Cambridge University Press, [2013]

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Description 1 online resource (254 pages)
Contents 1. How India institutionalised democracy & Pakistan promoted autocracy -- 2. The social origins of pro- and anti-democratic movements (1885-1919) -- 3. Imagining and institutionalizing new nations (1919-1947) -- 4. Organizing alliances (1919-1947) -- 5. Freedom at midnight and divergent democracies (1947-1958) -- 6. The institutionalization of alliances in India, Pakistan, and beyond
Summary An examination of how, despite similar historical contexts, India became a stable democracy post-independence, whilst Pakistan became an unstable autocracy
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Democracy.
Authoritarianism.
Authoritarianism
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
Authoritarianism
Democracy
Politics and government
SUBJECT India -- Politics and government -- 1947- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064944
Pakistan -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85096888
Subject India
Pakistan
Form Electronic book
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