Field: History
Project Title: United for Pakistan? Shared Ideas of Nationalism Among Students in East and West Pakistan in the 1960s
Affiliated Institution: Northeastern University
Fellowship Type: Pre-Doctoral
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Field: Anthropology
Project Title: Seal Production in the Indus Civilization: A Comparative Analysis of Art, Technology, and Power
Affiliated Institution: University of Wisconsin - Madison
Fellowship Type: Pre-Doctoral
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Field: Sociology
Project Title: Landscape of Desire: Memory and History in the Life of Lahore
Affiliated Institution: Sarah Lawrence College
Fellowship Type: Post-Doctoral
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Field: Sociology of Religion
Project Title: Social Transformation in Fin de Si�cle Punjab
Affiliated Institution: University of Chicago
Fellowship Type: Pre-Doctoral
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Field: Anthropology
Project Title: Registering Injustice: Religious Narrative and Ritual Expression in a Shia Migrant Labor Community
Affiliated Institution: Johns Hopkins University
Fellowship Type: Pre-Doctoral
Abstract
Ayesha Siddiqa's Military Inc. is a courageous work exposing the Pakistan military's largely invisible parallel economy; one that siphons off a sizable share of the Pakistani state's resources to benefit a select few. The work goes beyond the "national security" analysis of Pakistan's military's reluctance to relinquish control; it shows that the defense service's motivations for dominance are rather parochial. Siddiqa's theoretical framework also analyzes the role of the Turkish and Indonesian militaries, showing how other "professional" militaries can have "unprofessional" interests; this impedes the development of a vibrant democracy. Written in lucid prose, this work charts new ground in its analysis of how the Pakistan military's economic interests contribute to its imperative to gain state power while providing a theoretical framework that engages broader questions of the relationship between militaries and state power. In doing so, Military Inc. makes an important contribution to the comparative study of military-state-society relations while providing for Pakistan--both through its empirical depth and cogent analysis--a critical history of the present. It is a new and innovative work that invites exploration of the Pakistan project that extends beyond the "Muslim question" and probes the institutions that failed in delivering the promise of improvement to the people in the newly found Muslim homeland.