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Abstract: Acknowledgements Introduction Ali Usman Qasmi and Megan Eaton Robb 1. Maulana Husain Ahmad Madani and the Jamiat 'Ulama-i-Hind: against Pakistan, against the Muslim League Barbara Metcalf 2. The Partition conundrum: perspectives, experiences and ambiguities from qasbahs in India Raisur Rahman 3. Choudhary Rahmat Ali and his political imagination: pak-plan and the Continent of Dinia Tahir Kamran 4. Differentiating between Pakistan and Napak-istan: Maulana Abu'l A'la Maududi's critique of the Muslim League and Muhammad Ali Jinnah Ali Usman Qasmi 5. Advising the Army of Allah: Ashraf 'Ali Thanawi's critique of the Muslim League Megan Eaton Robb 6. The illusory promise of freedom: Mian Iftikhar-ud-Din and the movement for Pakistan Ali Raza 7. Visionary of another politics: Inayatullah Khan 'al-Mashriqi' and Pakistan Markus Daechsel 8. Nonviolence, Pukhtunwali and decolonization: Abdul Ghaffar Khan and the Khudai Khidmatgar politics of friendship Safoora Arbab 9. Islam, communism and the search for a fiction Ammar Ali Jan 10. Muslim nationalist or nationalist Muslim? Allah Bakhsh Soomro and Muslim politics in 1930s and 1940s Sindh Sarah Ansari 11. Dancing with the enemy: Sikander Hayat Khan, Jinnah and the vexed question of 'Pakistan' in a Punjabi unionist context Newal Osman 12. Religion between region and nation: Rezaul Karim, Bengal and Muslim politics at the end of empire Neilesh Bose 13. 'The Pakistan that is going to be Sunnistan': Indian Shi'a responses to the Pakistan movement Justin Jones 14. The Baluch Qaum of Kalat state: challenging the ideological and territorial boundaries of Pakistan Abdul Majeed Index.