The promise of power : the origins of democracy in India and autocracy in Pakistan / Maya Tudor, University of Oxford.
- xiii, 240 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 224-234) and index.
1. How India institutionalised democracy and Pakistan promoted autocracy -- 2. The social origins of pro- and anti-democratic movements (1885-1919) -- 3. Imagining and institutionalizing new nations (1919-1947) -- 4. Organizing alliances (1919-1947) -- 5. Freedom at midnight and divergent democracies (1947-1958) -- 6. The institutionalization of alliances in India, Pakistan, and beyond.