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Author : Ahmed Abdulla
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Historical Background of Pakistan and Its People written by Ahmed Abdulla and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christophe Jaffrelot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A History of Pakistan and Its Origins written by Christophe Jaffrelot and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A History of Pakistan and its Origins' is a comprehensive, detailed and fully up-to-date study of one of the most diverse, volatile and strategically significant countries in the world today. Born in turmoil barely half a century ago, Pakistan seems to be in an interminable pursuit of its own identity and at the same time finds itself a pivotal player in world politics. Its short existence has witnessed much: four coups d' tat; the rise of Islam as a power; tensions between ethnic, religious and separatist movements; the Kashmir conflict and the near-constant war footing with India. This text charts half a century of nation-building in Pakistan, while at the same time placing the country within the context of its relations with the outside world.
Author : Imran Khan
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0857500643
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (575 download)
Download or read book Pakistan written by Imran Khan and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Pakistan' tells the fascinating history of the country as seen through the eyes of one of its most famous sons, Imran Khan.
Author : Farahnaz Ispahani
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190621656
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Purifying the Land of the Pure written by Farahnaz Ispahani and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Purifying the Land of the Pure, Farahnaz Ispahani analyzes Pakistan's policies towards its religious minority populations, both Muslim and non-Muslim, since independence in 1947.
Author : James Wynbrandt
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 081606184X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (16 download)
Download or read book A Brief History of Pakistan written by James Wynbrandt and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Publisher: A Brief History of Pakistan attempts to answer these questions in a concise yet thorough account. By illuminating the nation's past, this book offers readers a detailed perspective of Pakistan today and enables them to consider soundly how the country, once a birthplace of civilization, might change in the future.
Author : T. C. A. Raghavan
Publisher : Hurst & Company
ISBN 13 : 178738019X
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)
Download or read book The People Next Door written by T. C. A. Raghavan and published by Hurst & Company. This book was released on 2019 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 2017 by HarperCollins Publishers India.
Author : Muhammad Qasim Zaman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069121073X
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Islam in Pakistan written by Muhammad Qasim Zaman and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to explore the modern history of Islam in South Asia The first modern state to be founded in the name of Islam, Pakistan was the largest Muslim country in the world at the time of its establishment in 1947. Today it is the second-most populous, after Indonesia. Islam in Pakistan is the first comprehensive book to explore Islam's evolution in this region over the past century and a half, from the British colonial era to the present day. Muhammad Qasim Zaman presents a rich historical account of this major Muslim nation, insights into the rise and gradual decline of Islamic modernist thought in the South Asian region, and an understanding of how Islam has fared in the contemporary world. Much attention has been given to Pakistan's role in sustaining the Afghan struggle against the Soviet occupation in the 1980s, in the growth of the Taliban in the 1990s, and in the War on Terror after 9/11. But as Zaman shows, the nation's significance in matters relating to Islam has much deeper roots. Since the late nineteenth century, South Asia has witnessed important initiatives toward rethinking core Islamic texts and traditions in the interest of their compatibility with the imperatives of modern life. Traditionalist scholars and their institutions, too, have had a prominent presence in the region, as have Islamism and Sufism. Pakistan did not merely inherit these and other aspects of Islam. Rather, it has been and remains a site of intense contestation over Islam's public place, meaning, and interpretation. Examining how facets of Islam have been pivotal in Pakistani history, Islam in Pakistan offers sweeping perspectives on what constitutes an Islamic state.
Author : J. Hussain
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A History of the Peoples of Pakistan written by J. Hussain and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Too Long The History Of Pakistan Has Meant The History Of Muslim Rulers In Delhi And Agra, Of British Rulers In Calcutta, Delhi, And Simla, And Of Educated Muslims In Aligarh And Lucknow. We Must Take Note Of The Positive And Negative Contributions Of All Groups, Muslim And Non-Muslim, From Both East And West Of The Present-Day Pakistan Area. But Pakistan By Its Very Survival And Growth Has Proved That It Deserves A Serious Historical Study Centred Upon Its Own Land And Peoles. This Book Is A Beginning In This Direction. If Recounts The History Of The Pakistan Area From The Perspective Of Present-Day Pakistan.
Author : Ian Talbot
Publisher : Hurst & Company
ISBN 13 : 9781850659891
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (598 download)
Download or read book Pakistan written by Ian Talbot and published by Hurst & Company. This book was released on 2009 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With this study, Ian Talbot offers a detailed analysis of the problems which have beset Pakistan's nation-building enterprise since its birth in 1947.
Author : Faisal Devji
Publisher : Hurst Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1849042764
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Muslim Zion written by Faisal Devji and published by Hurst Publishers. This book was released on 2013 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: London: C.Hurst & Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 2013.
Author : Declan Walsh
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393249921
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)
Download or read book The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State written by Declan Walsh and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2021 Overseas Press Club of America Cornelius Ryan Award The former New York Times Pakistan bureau chief paints an arresting, up-close portrait of a fractured country. Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times’s most distinguished international correspondents. His electrifying portrait of Pakistan over a tumultuous decade captures the sweep of this strange, wondrous, and benighted country through the dramatic lives of nine fascinating individuals. On assignment as the country careened between crises, Walsh traveled from the raucous port of Karachi to the salons of Lahore, and from Baluchistan to the mountains of Waziristan. He met a diverse cast of extraordinary Pakistanis—a chieftain readying for war at his desert fort, a retired spy skulking through the borderlands, and a crusading lawyer risking death for her beliefs, among others. Through these “nine lives” he describes a country on the brink—a place of creeping extremism and political chaos, but also personal bravery and dogged idealism that defy easy stereotypes. Unbeknownst to Walsh, however, an intelligence agent was tracking him. Written in the aftermath of Walsh’s abrupt deportation, The Nine Lives of Pakistan concludes with an astonishing encounter with that agent, and his revelations about Pakistan’s powerful security state. Intimate and complex, attuned to the centrifugal forces of history, identity, and faith, The Nine Lives of Pakistan offers an unflinching account of life in a precarious, vital country.
Author : Ian Talbot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780231703185
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Pakistan written by Ian Talbot and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If Pakistan is to preserve all that is good about its country -- the generosity and hospitality of its people, the dynamism of its youth -- then it must face the deterioration of its social and political institutions. Sidestepping easy headlines to identify Pakistan's true dangers, this volume revisits the major turning points and trends of Pakistani history over the past six decades, focusing on the increasing entrenchment of Pakistan's army in its political and economic arenas; the complex role of Islam in public life; the tensions between central and local identities and democratic impulses; and the affect of geopolitical influences on domestic policy and development. While Ian Talbot's study centers on Pakistan's many failures -- the collapse of stable governance, the drop in positive political and economic development, and, most of all, the unrealized goal of securing a separate Muslim state -- his text unequivocally affirms Pakistan's potential for a positive reawakening. These failures were not preordained, Talbot agues, and such a fatalistic reading does not respect the complexity of historical events, individual actors, and the nation's own rich resources. Talbot's sensitive historical approach makes it clear that favorable opportunities still remain for Pakistan, in which the state has a chance to reclaim its priorities and institutions and reestablish political and economic sustainability.
Author : Ayesha Jalal
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674744993
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (747 download)
Download or read book The Struggle for Pakistan written by Ayesha Jalal and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-16 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established as a homeland for India’s Muslims in 1947, Pakistan has had a tumultuous history. Beset by assassinations, coups, ethnic strife, and the breakaway of Bangladesh in 1971, the country has found itself too often contending with religious extremism and military authoritarianism. Now, in a probing biography of her native land amid the throes of global change, Ayesha Jalal provides an insider’s assessment of how this nuclear-armed Muslim nation evolved as it did and explains why its dilemmas weigh so heavily on prospects for peace in the region. “[An] important book...Ayesha Jalal has been one of the first and most reliable [Pakistani] political historians [on Pakistan]...The Struggle for Pakistan [is] her most accessible work to date...She is especially telling when she points to the lack of serious academic or political debate in Pakistan about the role of the military.” —Ahmed Rashid, New York Review of Books “[Jalal] shows that Pakistan never went off the rails; it was, moreover, never a democracy in any meaningful sense. For its entire history, a military caste and its supporters in the ruling class have formed an ‘establishment’ that defined their narrow interests as the nation’s.” —Isaac Chotiner, Wall Street Journal
Author : Carolyn Black
Publisher : Crabtree Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780778793472
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (934 download)
Download or read book Pakistan written by Carolyn Black and published by Crabtree Publishing Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pakistan's history, climate, and geography have shaped many of the customs and practices of its people. This fascinating book follows the history of Pakistan's struggle for independence, its culture and religion, and portrays the daily lives of its men, women, and children.
Author : Kamran Asdar Ali
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350261211
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Towards Peoples' Histories in Pakistan written by Kamran Asdar Ali and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-04 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After seventy-five years of independence, the history of Pakistan remains centered on the state, its ideology and the two-nation theory. Towards Peoples' Histories in Pakistan seeks to shift that focus away from histories of an imagined nation, to the history of its peoples. Based on the premise that the historiographical tradition in Pakistan has ignored the existence of people who actually make history, this book brings together historians, anthropologists, sociologists and political scientists to shed light on the diverse histories of the people themselves. Assembling histories of events and peoples missing from grand narratives of national history, the essays in this collection incorporate a diversity of approaches to the past as it opens the possibilities of multiple histories, the archives through which they are registered, and the various temporalities in which they persist. The volume highlights and recuperates the entangled nature of history and memory within Pakistan's social and cultural life. By critically examining both leftist and nationalist thought, Towards People's Histories in Pakistan explores competing visions of what is meant by 'the people', and charts new ground in developing the promise of people's histories both within Pakistan and beyond.
Author : Lawrence Ziring
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Pakistan in the Twentieth Century written by Lawrence Ziring and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1997 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pakistan in the Twentieth Century analyses both the vision and the reality of a South Asian polity. Beginning with an examination of the people and forces that shaped the construction of an independent and predominantly Muslim state within the subcontinent, this historical study describes the events and the work of the many personalities who influenced Pakistan's development in the fifty years following the transfer of power.
Author : Willem van Schendel
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108620337
Total Pages : 459 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)
Download or read book A History of Bangladesh written by Willem van Schendel and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-07-02 with total page 459 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bangladesh did not exist as an independent state until 1971. Willem van Schendel's state-of-the-art history navigates the extraordinary twists and turns that created modern Bangladesh through ecological disaster, colonialism, partition, a war of independence and cultural renewal. In this revised and updated edition, Van Schendel offers a fascinating and highly readable account of life in Bangladesh over the last two millennia. Based on the latest academic research and covering the numerous historical developments of the 2010s, he provides an eloquent introduction to a fascinating country and its resilient and inventive people. A perfect survey for travellers, expats, students and scholars alike.
