Political continuity and apolitical changes: A retrogressive study of political participation in Pakistani Punjab

Pakistan has got a checkered political history since its inception. Political continuity has always been checked by apolitical changes with subsequent coups of 1958, 1977 and 1999. An apolitical nexus of praetorian class, civil bureaucracy and feudal clout has never let the political continuity lost...

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spelling my.uum.repo.145022016-04-28T02:46:35Z http://repo.uum.edu.my/14502/ Political continuity and apolitical changes: A retrogressive study of political participation in Pakistani Punjab Awan, Sajid DS Asia Pakistan has got a checkered political history since its inception. Political continuity has always been checked by apolitical changes with subsequent coups of 1958, 1977 and 1999. An apolitical nexus of praetorian class, civil bureaucracy and feudal clout has never let the political continuity lost even for a single term with an exception of the last one which too could survive only under the auspices of the same nexus.It is generally believed that they never let the process of political participation increase a certain level.Central argument of the present paper is quite opposite. 2014-08-23 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://repo.uum.edu.my/14502/1/19.pdf Awan, Sajid (2014) Political continuity and apolitical changes: A retrogressive study of political participation in Pakistani Punjab. In: 23rd International Conference of Historians of Asia 2014 (IAHA2014), 23 - 27 August 2014, Alor Setar, Kedah, Malaysia. http://www.iaha2014.uum.edu.my/
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Political continuity and apolitical changes: A retrogressive study of political participation in Pakistani Punjab
description Pakistan has got a checkered political history since its inception. Political continuity has always been checked by apolitical changes with subsequent coups of 1958, 1977 and 1999. An apolitical nexus of praetorian class, civil bureaucracy and feudal clout has never let the political continuity lost even for a single term with an exception of the last one which too could survive only under the auspices of the same nexus.It is generally believed that they never let the process of political participation increase a certain level.Central argument of the present paper is quite opposite.
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author Awan, Sajid
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title Political continuity and apolitical changes: A retrogressive study of political participation in Pakistani Punjab
title_short Political continuity and apolitical changes: A retrogressive study of political participation in Pakistani Punjab
title_full Political continuity and apolitical changes: A retrogressive study of political participation in Pakistani Punjab
title_fullStr Political continuity and apolitical changes: A retrogressive study of political participation in Pakistani Punjab
title_full_unstemmed Political continuity and apolitical changes: A retrogressive study of political participation in Pakistani Punjab
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url http://repo.uum.edu.my/14502/1/19.pdf
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