Government of paper : the materiality of bureaucracy in urban Pakistan /
Matthew S. Hull.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012.
- xiv, 301 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- The master plan and other documents -- Parchis, petitions and offices: approaches to the bureaucracy -- Files and the political economy of paper -- The expropriation of land and the misappropriation of lists -- Maps, mosques, and maslaks: ecumenical planning and sectarian conflict.
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Government paperwork--Pakistan--Islāmābād. Bureaucracy--Pakistan--Islāmābād. Capitals (Cities)--Planning.--Pakistan City planning--Pakistan--Islāmābād. Public records--Pakistan--Islāmābād. Municipal government--Records and correspondence.--Pakistan