Table of Contents:
- 1. How India institutionalised democracy and Pakistan promoted autocracy -- 2. The social origins of pro- and anti-democratic movements (1885-1919) -- 3. Imagining and institutionalizing new nations (1919-1947) -- 4. Organizing alliances (1919-1947) -- 5. Freedom at midnight and divergent democracies (1947-1958) -- 6. The institutionalization of alliances in India, Pakistan, and beyond.