Political Kinship in Pakistan

Stephen M. Lyon

doi:10.5771/9781498582186

Summary

In Political Kinship in Pakistan, Stephen M. Lyon illustrates how contemporary politics in Pakistan are built on complex kinship networks created through marriage and descent relations. Lyon points to kinship as a critical mechanism for understanding both Pakistan’s continued inability to develop strong and stable governments, and its incredible durability in the face of pressures that have led to the collapse and failure of other states around the world.

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Copyright year: 2019
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-8217-9
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-8218-6
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 138
Product type: Book Titles

1. Copyright Page No access
2. Dedication No access
3. Contents No access
4. List of Figures No access
5. Acknowledgments No access
1. Power and approaches No access
2. Rival Foundations of Power No access
3. Pakistan’s Fragility No access
4. Idea Systems No access
5. Robustness and Resilience in Systems No access
6. Cultural Systems No access
7. Attachment No access
8. Kinship, Family, Lineage, and Groups No access
9. The Road Map No access
10. Notes No access
1. THE DESIRE FOR A STRONG LEADER No access
2. The Contradictions of Pakistan No access
3. Methodology No access
4. Pedigrees and Social Networks No access
1. THE TURBULENT NORTH WEST OF INDIA No access
2. A History of Roaming Marauders No access
3. The Muslim Era: Mughal and Suri Empires No access
4. The Sikh Empire No access
5. The British Raj No access
6. Partition and Mohajirs No access
7. Elite Difference and Checking Power No access
8. Notes No access
1. Descent and Alliance No access
2. The Backbone of Society No access
3. Descent No access
4. Nasl and Patrilineality No access
5. The Threat of Maternal Transmission No access
6. Punjabi Transmission of Personhood No access
7. Kinship Terminologies No access
8. Personhood, Substance and Language No access
9. Notes No access
1. INTRODUCTION No access
2. Dispute in Pakistan No access
3. Conflict Mediation Institutions No access
4. Cousin Rivalry No access
5. An Inheritance Dispute in Northern Punjab No access
6. Marriage as a Tool for Conflict Suppression No access
7. The Need for Constant Maintenance No access
8. The Cost-Benefit Analysis of Marrying Out No access
9. Notes No access
1. Aristocratic Families No access
2. Pedigrees and Networks No access
3. The Chaudhrys of Gujerat and Regional Links No access
4. The Bhuttos No access
5. The limitations of marriage No access
6. Notes No access
1. The Sharifs No access
2. Imran Khan and Naya Pakistan No access
3. Conclusion: Parallel Patterns No access
4. Notes No access
1. Checking Power No access
2. Material Consequences of Kinship No access
3. Beyond Regional and Electoral Politics No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. Notes No access
References No access Pages 123 - 132
Index No access Pages 133 - 136
About the Author No access Pages 137 - 138