| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.3

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Book Review

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Sayed Wiqar Ali Shah. Ethnicity, Islam and Nationalism: Muslim Politics in the North-West Frontier Province 1937–1947. New York: Oxford University Press. 1999. Pp. liv, 311. $32.00.

More than a half century after their creation, the enmity between a Hindu India and a Muslim Pakistan seems inevitable. History is, of course, the product of a far more complex mixing of intention and chance. Syed Wiqar Ali Shah's book serves as a reminder of that complexity to those who are convinced of the simple verity of the proposition stated in the first sentence of this review. The work addresses the dominance in the Muslim-majority Northwest Frontier Province (the "Afghania" that provided the "A" in Rehmat Ali Chaudhry's neologism: Pakistan) of a party allied to the mainly Hindu Congress Party almost to the moment of partition. In its attempt to illuminate local political developments, this book should be read along with David Gilmartin's Empire and Islam: Punjab and the Making of Pakistan (1988) as well as Sarah Ansari's Sufi Saints and State Power: The Pirs of Sind, 1843–1947 (1992). The three, taken together, provide a highly textured view of the interplay of ideology and local politics in the creation of what was in 1947 the world's biggest Muslim state. . . .

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