| ID | 149784 |
| Title Proper | Pakistan's 1951 census |
| Other Title Information | state-building in post-partition Sindh |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Ansari, Sarah |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This article explores the carrying out of Pakistan's first census in 1951 from the perspective of contemporary developments in the southern province of Sindh. Conducted against the backdrop of Partition-related migration to and from the province, this attempt at population enumeration proved to be a mammoth bureaucratic undertaking on the part of the recently-created Pakistani state. The challenges that this exercise posed at the provincial level shed light on processes of attempted nation-building as well as the centrality of population counting to the biopolitical management of citizenship during a key period of transition in mid twentieth-century Sindh. |
| `In' analytical Note | South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies Vol. 39, No.4; Dec 2016: p.820-840 |
| Journal Source | South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 2016-12 39, 4 |
| Key Words | Citizenship ; Pakistan ; Nation-Building ; State-Building ; Sindh ; 1951 Census |