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This is a revised version of a paper presented to the Conference on Contemporary Pakistan held at Columbia University, New York in October 1984. I wish to acknowledge the assistance of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, and Clare Hall, Cambridge, for making my participation possible. I wish also to thank members of the panel on ‘Islamic Reform in Pakistan’ particularly Bill Roff, Ashraf Ghani, David Lelyveld and Barbara Metcalfe. To Francis Robinson, Philip Oldenburg and Patrick Chabal, I owe whatever clarity might be seen to inhere in my argument.

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