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The New Pakistani Middle Class / Ammara Maqsood.

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Maqsood, Ammara [author.]

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9780674981508

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HT690.P18 M37 2017eb

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Contents:

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Note on Transliteration -- Introduction -- 1. Remembering a Modern Pakistan -- 2. Moral Rhetoric, Modernity, and Class -- 3. Piety and New Middle-Class Life -- 4. Islam and Consumption -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Title is part of eBook package: HUP eBook Package 2016-2018Title is part of eBook package: HUP eBook Package 2017Title is part of eBook package: HUP eBook-Package Pilot Project 2017Summary: Images of religious extremism and violence in Pakistan—and the narratives that interpret them—inform global events but also twist back to shape local class politics. Ammara Maqsood focuses on life in Lahore, where she untangles these narratives to show how central they are for understanding competition between middle-class groups.

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Images of religious extremism and violence in Pakistan—and the narratives that interpret them—inform global events but also twist back to shape local class politics. Ammara Maqsood focuses on life in Lahore, where she untangles these narratives to show how central they are for understanding competition between middle-class groups.

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In English.

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