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The essays in this volume address the central theme of Pakistan's enduring, yet elusive, quest for democracy.The book charts Pakistan's struggle from its very inception, at least in the political rhetoric provided by both civilian and military leaders, for democracy, liberalism, freedom of expression, inclusiveness of minorities and even secularism. At the same time, it demonstrates how, in practice, the country has continued to drift towards increasingly ...
In this informative new book, Ravi Kalia continues his examination of the planning of Indian cities begun with his earlier study of Chandigarh. Here, Kalia makes systematic inquiries into the political circumstances that brought about modern Bhubaneswar, the capital of the east of Orissa, to reveal the historical and social circumstances that shaped the city. The need for a new state capital was first voiced when Orissa was constituted as the eleventh ...
The culmination of Ravi Kalia’s trilogy on the formation of capital cities in postcolonial India, Gandhinagar joins the historian’s other two volumes, on Chandigarh and Bhubaneshwar, in tracing India’s efforts to establish its twentieth-century architectural identity. Kalia explains that Gandhinagar, the capital of Gujarat, became a battle-ground for the competing ideals that had surfaced during the building of Chandigarh and Bhubaneshwar. The mill owners ...