{"product_id":"the-reluctant-republic-ethos-and-mythos-of-pakistan","title":"The Reluctant Republic Ethos And Mythos Of Pakistan","description":"\u003cp\u003eNadeem Farooq Paracha's quest to explore various questions of identity in the nation-state of Pakistan continues. In this sixth book of his, The Reluctant Republic, he ventures even deeper to investigate the history of statist-nationalist narratives in Pakistan and how the country's diverse ethnic, sectarian and sub-sectarian groups responded to these narratives. Paracha posits that statist experiments in this context have largely failed to build a cohesive and confident nation-state which is always in fear of coming apart. As is often the case in his books, parallel to investigating the faultlines that crisscross Pakistan's existence as a nation-state, Paracha simultaneously weaves a counter-narrative. He challenges and deconstructs the statist narratives to provide a constructive alternative to experiments and narratives that have been unable to shape a unified and progressive nation-state but continue being repeated with minor modifications. Paracha builds a compelling case to conclude that the state of Pakistan must come to terms with the fact that the formulation of a civic-nationalism - or a nationalism based on a nation of diverse 'micro-nations' joined to an integrated economy rather than to a dominant ethnic group or a specific faith - is the country's only way out of the vicious cycle it seems to be stuck in. A cycle that weakens the resolve and structure of the nation-state every time it completes one futile rotation after another.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nadeem Farooq Paracha","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44866075328546,"sku":null,"price":1346.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/9531\/1138\/files\/9789694026480-1.jpg?v=1771929130","url":"https:\/\/www.onlineurdubazar.pk\/products\/the-reluctant-republic-ethos-and-mythos-of-pakistan","provider":"Online Urdu Bazar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}