The Promise of Power : The Origins of Democracy in India and Autocracy in Pakistan (Paperback)

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?47); 4. Organizing alliances (1919?47); 5. Freedom at midnight and divergent democracies (1947?58); 6. The institutionalization of alliances in India, Pakistan, and beyond.