Pakistan - Social and Cultural Transformations in a Muslim Nation (Routledge Contemporary South Asia

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Pakistan -- Economic conditions. Pakistan -- Social life and customs.

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Pakistan -- Race relations. Pakistan -- Social conditions -- 20th century.

Pakistan -- Social conditions -- 21st century. Contents Changing Pakistan Patterns of social change Landscape of independence Nation and ethnicity Urban transformations Development of the countryside Islam and social life Family, kinship, community, and civil society Everyday life Whither Pakistan Epilogue.


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