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Ayub Khan

Muhammad Ayub Khan

1907–1974

Also known as: General Ayub Khan, Field Marshal Ayub Khan

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Referenced in 1 other work — including FREE ENTERPRISE WILL SURVIVE AS LONG AS MAN SURVIVES .

In FREE ENTERPRISE WILL SURVIVE AS LONG AS MAN SURVIVES : Shroff weaponises Nehru's own description of Ayub Khan's regime as a 'naked military dictatorship' to expose what he reads as the Prime Minister's intolerance of dissent — turning the Pakistani strongman into a rhetorical mirror held up to Nehru's democratic claims.

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  • FREE ENTERPRISE WILL SURVIVE AS LONG AS MAN SURVIVES · 1958
    • "He pointedly contrasts the 'champion Democrat' with General Ayub Khan, whom Nehru has himself described as representing a 'naked military dictatorship', to suggest the Prime Minister's intolerance of dissent sits uneasily with his democratic claims." — Ayub Khan is invoked as a rhetorical foil to embarrass Nehru's self-image as a democrat