Culprits In The Mind

<p class=ql-align-center><strong><em>Why Pakistan's mind-not just its institutions-must change for democracy and the state to survive?</em></strong></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Culprits in the Mind: Perspectives on Pakistan</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a lucid unsparing diagnosis of Pakistan's political and social pathology - and a humane blueprint for repair. Imran Khalid Usman traces the country's dilemmas to deep psychological historical and institutional causes: the legacy of Muslim separatism and the conquistador-minority mindset born of centuries of conquest (see part 1 </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Muslim Nationalism</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>). He maps how Islamic dogmatic fundamentalism hollowed out intellectual freedom (</span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Problem with Islamic 'Dogmatic' Fundamentalism</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>) and how migrant/urban middle class solipsism bureaucracy and the military shaped a dominant anti-democratic zeitgeist (part 2 </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Pakistani Zeitgeist</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>). Usman moves beyond accusation to prescription: decentralised federalism strengthening rule of law rural development and a modern economic strategy that ties resource gains to provincial welfare - remedies aimed at restoring pluralism tolerance and a democratic Pakistan (see </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Statecraft Upper Classes</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>; </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Rule of Law and Corruption</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>; </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Pakistani Effervescence</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>; </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Epilogue</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>). Written with historical sweep intellectual rigor and moral urgency this book will interest readers of South Asian history political theory and anyone seeking to understand why states and societies fracture and how they might be mended. Clear readable and fiercely honest </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Culprits in the Mind</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> reframes Pakistan's troubles as solvable problems - if the country can shed the myths prejudices and anxieties that still govern its public life.</span></p>