ABSTRACT
This edited translation of Syed Nur Ahmad's landmark study, Martial Law to Martial Law, provides the most comprehensive study in English or Urdu of the politics of the Punjab. Drawing on his career as a journalist and as former director of information for the government of the Punjab, Nur Ahmad gives an eyewitness account of the politics of the province from the imposition of martial law in 1919 (following the Jalianwala Bagh massacre) to the reestablishment of martial law accompanying the coup d'etat led by General Ayub Khan in Pakistan in 1958. Nur Ahmad relates the events in the Punjab to the larger Indian Muslim political scene, assesses the development and eventual decline of the Unionist Party (which stood against the partition of India), and traces the rise of support for the Muslim League. He also looks at the post-independence period in Pakistan and the failure of the parliamentary regime, discussing how national-level politics affected the Punjab._
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|48 pages
Martial Law and Civil Disobedience
part II|75 pages
Dyarchy and the Unionist Party
chapter Chapter 13|8 pages
The Delhi Proposals, the Nehru Report and the All-Parties Muslim Conference
part III|71 pages
Provincial Autonomy and the Muslim League
part IV|85 pages
Partition
part V|56 pages
Parliamentary Democracy Tried
chapter Chapter 53|7 pages
The Foreign Policy of Liaqat Ali What Were the Reasons for His Assassination?
chapter Chapter 54|11 pages
Prime Minister Nazimuddin and Governor General Ghulam Muhammad - the Beginning of Palace Intrigues
part VI|78 pages
Parliamentary Democracy Failed