Pakistan at Seventy-Five: Identity, Governance and Conflict-Resolution in a Post-Colonial Nation-State

'One of the world's most inegalitarian and unevenly developed societies, Pakistan remains in search of a viable nation-building project more than seven decades after coming into existence. This volume incisively captures logics of statecraft and accumulation in both centres and peripheries as well as the struggles of youth, working classes and academic-activists to forge a viable social contract and with it, a more just future.' Aasim Sajjad Akhtar, Assistant Professor, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad, Pakistan

'This is a fascinating and brilliant collection of essays decentring knowledge production of the nation and state building in Pakistan. Illustrating a multi-level, multilayer matrix of knowledge production opening a multiplicity of voices and transversal and intersecting identities that are rarely heard in Pakistan. This is even more remarkable given the difficult research terrain that Pakistani social sciences finds itself in.' Yunas Samad, Professor South Asian Studies / Director Political Science LUMS, Lahore, Pakistan, Emeritus Professor University of Bradford, UK