The Hazaras and the Afghan state : rebellion, exclusion and the struggle for recognition /
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| Author / Creator: | Ibrahimi, Niamatullah, author. |
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| Imprint: | London : C. Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 2017. |
| Description: | xviii, 285 pages : maps ; 23 cm |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Map Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11414001 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- Glossary
- Introduction: The Modern State, Wars and Ethnic Politics in Afghanistan
- The ethnic landscape of Afghanistan
- The modern state and ethnic politics in Afghanistan
- War-centric and state-centric explanations
- The argument and approach of this book
- The structure of this book
- 1. Ethnic and Tribal Politics in Transition from Empire to Statehood
- Introduction
- Transition from the Durrani empire to the kingdom of Kabul
- Internalisation of jehad and conquest
- The Hazaras and the Durrani rulers
- Conclusion
- 2. State-Building, Violence and Rebellions: The Period of Amir Abdur Rahman Khan, 1880-1901
- Introduction
- State-building and rebellions
- Abdur Rahman Khan and the Hazaras the during the 1880s
- The Hazara War
- The aftermath of the conquest of Hazarajat
- Massacres and destructions in the course of the war
- Conclusion
- 3. The Afghan State and the Hazaras, 1901-1978: Afghan Nationalism and Policies and Politics of Modernisation and Exclusion
- Introduction
- Continuity and ruptures in the historical trajectory of the Afghan State: 1901-1978
- Ethnic and national conceptions of nationhood
- The state and ethnic power relations in Hazarajat
- Shiftfrom Hazaras' traditional local rebellion to modern national protest
- Conclusion
- 4. The Rise and Fall of a Clerical Proto-state: Hazarajat, 1979-1984
- Introduction
- The origins of the Shura: A state within a state
- The Shura and emerging ideological and political conflicts among the Hazaras
- Civil and military structure of the Shura
- The Shura's diplomacy
- Conclusion
- 5. At the Source of Factionalism and Civil War in Hazarajat, 1981-1989
- Introduction
- The first civil war within the clergy: Islamists versus traditionalists
- The second civil war: Islamists versus Islamists
- The rise of the military class and its destabilising role
- Conclusion
- 6. The Shift from Internal Wars of Domination to National Struggles for Recognition: Hazaras and Ethnicisation of Politics and War in 1990s
- Introduction
- The shift from internal Hazara politics to national politics: 1989-1992
- Hezb-e Wahdat and the Mujahedin government
- Taliban, re-conquest and centralisation
- Resistance or collaboration: 1998-2001
- Conclusion
- 7. International Intervention, State-building and Ethnic Politics, 2001-2016
- Introduction
- The ideals and practices of ethnic and political pluralism, 2001-2016
- Responding to the opportunities of the post-2002 political order
- Rewarding violence in distribution of development assistance
- Conclusion
- Conclusion
- Revisiting the main argument of the book
- State-building as historical reconstruction
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
