Deposing of a dictator : revisiting a magnificent mass uprising after 50 years /

Kabir, Nurul.

Deposing of a dictator : revisiting a magnificent mass uprising after 50 years / Nurul Kabir. - 168 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 144-146) and index.

Acknowledgement -- 1. Prologue. Restoring confidence in public resistance -- 2. First illegimate takeover of power in Pakistan: a decade of oppressive silence -- 3. Breaking the silence aloud: legitimate anger bursts into the streets -- 4. Moulana rouses the masses: an uprising in the making -- 5. Students also rise in the East: dawns the magnificent mass uprising -- 6. Sheikh's secret message to the Moulana: Moulana's roaring response to free the Sheikh -- 7. The abortive roundtable: Sheikh's return to the East disappointed -- 8. Deposing of the dictator -- 9. Epilogue. Renewal of the old order, and thereafter -- Selected bibliography -- Notes and references -- Index.

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