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- Title
Regional Muslim Politics in Multan under the British.
- Authors
Shafique Bhatti, Muhammad; Kanwal, Lubna
- Abstract
Whether regional politics was subject to mainstream British Indian politics or was associated with the regional issues, is a major questions for the study of the History of British India. The paper evolves around the theme that regional politics under the British had been subject to Imperial structure of elites' politics. In this structure, the regional political contests were the major reason of the change of parties or formation of political alliances. The introduction of western model of responsible representation shifted the priority area of politics from feudal to the groups and elites having a communal and mass footing. Regional politics emerged as a contest of elites having feudal decorum with those having masses temper and contacts. The success was won by those who had mass-contacts. The success of the political parties was subject to the support of those groups who had mass contacts. In the regional politics of Multan, Gillanis and Qureshis were two major contestants of Politics. Gillanis had a deep-rooted mass contact and won a mass support. The success of the Muslim League was subjects to the mass support which Gillanis has already won.
- Subjects
MULTAN (Pakistan); POLITICS &; government of India; MUSLIMS; POLITICAL parties; ALL-India Muslim League; HISTORY
- Publication
Pakistan Journal of Social Sciences (PJSS), 2014, Vol 34, Issue 2, p743
- ISSN
2074-2061
- Publication type
Article