Download or read book The Post-colonial State and Social Transformation in India and Pakistan written by Syed Mohammad Naseem and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2002 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays focus on such issues as the nature of ascendent bureaucracy, biraderi, feudalism, land reforms, development strategy, religious intolerance and women's emancipation. They provide a reasoned explanation of the continued backwardness and persistent poverty in South Asia in the midst of affluence. The book consists of more than a dozen chapters related to the themes which have been the central focus of the well-known social scientist, Professor Hamza Alavi's work on social and economic issues in post-colonial South Asia.