The Quest for a Nation: State-making and Nation-building in Pakistan, 1947-1958
Open AccessThis dissertation explores why and how the Pakistani state - personified by the ranks of the CSP - and in particular the central state in West Pakistan, handled the entwined processes of state-making and nation-building during Pakistan’s first decade, and how these two processes affected each other. The dissertation uses four particular case studies to explore these processes: Refugee and property rehabilitation, the Census of 1951, the State Language issue, and the One-Unit Policy. The concept of state-making is taken as one through which nascent Pakistani state institutions, particularly the Civil Bureaucracy, attempted to build its administrative capacity and governance structure. Through these cases then, this dissertation argues that the central Pakistani state attempted to implement a top-down version of the Pakistani “nation” through administrative exercises and policy implementation.
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