Author: Ihsan H. Nadiem
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ISBN:
Category : Fortification
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The Book Gives A Very Concise History Of The Category Of Fort, Although It Is A Subject Worth Tackling In A Much Wider Context And Over Full Volumes. The Individual Articles Then Examine The Major Historical And Regional Traditions Of Fort Architecture, Spanning Over Some Five Thousand Years And Encompassing Almost All Parts Of Pakistan. Contents: Pre-And Mature Harappan Defences; Fortresses Of Gandhara; Hindu Shahiya Period Forts; Forts Humbled By First Muslim Wave To South Asia Subcontinent; Muslim Period Forts. Like New.
Forts of Pakistan
Author: Ihsan H. Nadiem
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fortification
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The Book Gives A Very Concise History Of The Category Of Fort, Although It Is A Subject Worth Tackling In A Much Wider Context And Over Full Volumes. The Individual Articles Then Examine The Major Historical And Regional Traditions Of Fort Architecture, Spanning Over Some Five Thousand Years And Encompassing Almost All Parts Of Pakistan. Contents: Pre-And Mature Harappan Defences; Fortresses Of Gandhara; Hindu Shahiya Period Forts; Forts Humbled By First Muslim Wave To South Asia Subcontinent; Muslim Period Forts. Like New.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fortification
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The Book Gives A Very Concise History Of The Category Of Fort, Although It Is A Subject Worth Tackling In A Much Wider Context And Over Full Volumes. The Individual Articles Then Examine The Major Historical And Regional Traditions Of Fort Architecture, Spanning Over Some Five Thousand Years And Encompassing Almost All Parts Of Pakistan. Contents: Pre-And Mature Harappan Defences; Fortresses Of Gandhara; Hindu Shahiya Period Forts; Forts Humbled By First Muslim Wave To South Asia Subcontinent; Muslim Period Forts. Like New.
Historical Forts in Pakistan
Author: Shaikh Khurshid Hasan
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The History Of Evolution Of Military Architecture In Pakistan Can Be Traced Back To Ancient Times. Its Development In All The Subsequent Periods Is Linked With The Advancement Of Military Crafts. The History Of Forts And Fortifications In Pakistan Can Be Divided Into 4 Periods, Namely, Pre-Historic, Hindu-Budhist, Muslim And Post-Muslim.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The History Of Evolution Of Military Architecture In Pakistan Can Be Traced Back To Ancient Times. Its Development In All The Subsequent Periods Is Linked With The Advancement Of Military Crafts. The History Of Forts And Fortifications In Pakistan Can Be Divided Into 4 Periods, Namely, Pre-Historic, Hindu-Budhist, Muslim And Post-Muslim.
The Ramifications of Ramparts
Author: Saleema Bashir Waraich
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780549130642
Category : Architecture, Mogul
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
After Independence from British rule in 1947, the Mughal forts of Delhi and Lahore were divided by the Indian-Pakistan border. The second half of the dissertation compares the symbolic significance of the two forts in their respective countries. Chapter Three considers the place of the Mughals---which has become synonymous with Muslim rule and a longer presence of 'foreign' rule---in India today. The final chapter examines how Pakistan's ongoing need to justify its existence as separate from India as well as several decades of political instability is reflected in shared narratives constructed around the Lahore Fort.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780549130642
Category : Architecture, Mogul
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
After Independence from British rule in 1947, the Mughal forts of Delhi and Lahore were divided by the Indian-Pakistan border. The second half of the dissertation compares the symbolic significance of the two forts in their respective countries. Chapter Three considers the place of the Mughals---which has become synonymous with Muslim rule and a longer presence of 'foreign' rule---in India today. The final chapter examines how Pakistan's ongoing need to justify its existence as separate from India as well as several decades of political instability is reflected in shared narratives constructed around the Lahore Fort.
The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State
Author: Declan Walsh
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393249921
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
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.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393249921
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 301
Book Description
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.
Lost Heritage
Author: Amardeep Singh
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788170021155
Category : Pakistan
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9788170021155
Category : Pakistan
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Ancient Cholistan
Author: Mohammad Rafique Mughal
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Department of State Publication
Author:
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Category : Diplomatic and consular service
Languages : en
Pages : 1550
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Diplomatic and consular service
Languages : en
Pages : 1550
Book Description
Congressional Record
Author: United States. Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Forts
Author: The National Archives
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472827627
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
A fascinating, illustrated history of forts and castles from their earliest origins to the 20th century. Ever since humans began to live together in settlements they have felt the need to organise some kind of defence against potentially hostile neighbours. Many of the earliest city states were built as walled towns, and during the medieval era, stone castles were built both as symbols of the defenders' strength and as protection against potential attack. The advent of cannon prompted fortifications to become lower, denser and more complex, and the forts of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries could appear like snowflakes in their complexity and beautiful geometry. Without forts, the history of America could have taken a very different course, pirates could have sailed the seas unchecked, and Britain itself could have been successfully invaded. This book explains the history of human fortifications, and is beautifully illustrated using photographs, plans, drawings and maps to explain why they were built, their various functions and their immense historical legacy in laying the foundations of empire.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472827627
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
A fascinating, illustrated history of forts and castles from their earliest origins to the 20th century. Ever since humans began to live together in settlements they have felt the need to organise some kind of defence against potentially hostile neighbours. Many of the earliest city states were built as walled towns, and during the medieval era, stone castles were built both as symbols of the defenders' strength and as protection against potential attack. The advent of cannon prompted fortifications to become lower, denser and more complex, and the forts of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries could appear like snowflakes in their complexity and beautiful geometry. Without forts, the history of America could have taken a very different course, pirates could have sailed the seas unchecked, and Britain itself could have been successfully invaded. This book explains the history of human fortifications, and is beautifully illustrated using photographs, plans, drawings and maps to explain why they were built, their various functions and their immense historical legacy in laying the foundations of empire.
Pakistan Affairs
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pakistan
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pakistan
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description