‘Questioning Migrants offers a fresh understanding of ethnic nationalism in Pakistan. It shows that the Muhajirs, the post-Partition migrants from north and central India to Pakistan, are not defined by prior linguistic or ethnic origins. Instead, the book explains that they emerged as an ethnic group in the wake of decolonization as exemplary national subjects of Pakistan, willing to sacrifice for Muslim nationalism and distinguishing itself from the provincialist politics of other linguistic and ethnic groups. With superb ethnography and sophisticated theorizing, the book brings into view how the Muhajirs and their MQM movement grew in the turbulent space of mass migration, urbanization, and politics to both affirm the “national” and question it from within with non-elitist politics from below.' Gyan Prakash, Princeton University