Author: Kamran Asdar Ali
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350261203
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
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.
Towards Peoples' Histories in Pakistan
Author: Kamran Asdar Ali
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350261203
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350261203
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
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.
Hidden Histories of Pakistan
Author: Sarah Fatima Waheed
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108834523
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Examines the role of progressive Muslim intellectuals in the Pakistan movement through the lens of censorship.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108834523
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 311
Book Description
Examines the role of progressive Muslim intellectuals in the Pakistan movement through the lens of censorship.
Pakistan
Author: Yasmeen Niaz Mohiuddin
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
"Covers ten centuries of history, with emphasis on events and people central to creation of the Pakistani Muslim identity and to the creation of the modern state."--Publisher website: http://www.abc-clio.com/products/overview.aspx?productid=109918&viewid=1.
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
Book Description
"Covers ten centuries of history, with emphasis on events and people central to creation of the Pakistani Muslim identity and to the creation of the modern state."--Publisher website: http://www.abc-clio.com/products/overview.aspx?productid=109918&viewid=1.
Purifying the Land of the Pure
Author: Farahnaz Ispahani
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190621656
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190621656
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
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.
Pakistan
Author: Imran Khan
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0857500643
Category : Pakistan
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
'Pakistan' tells the fascinating history of the country as seen through the eyes of one of its most famous sons, Imran Khan.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 0857500643
Category : Pakistan
Languages : en
Pages : 433
Book Description
'Pakistan' tells the fascinating history of the country as seen through the eyes of one of its most famous sons, Imran Khan.
1971
Author: Anam Zakaria
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN: 9353057213
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
The year 1971 exists everywhere in Bangladesh-on its roads, in sculptures, in its museums and oral history projects, in its curriculum, in people's homes and their stories, and in political discourse. It marks the birth of the nation, it's liberation. More than 1000 miles away, in Pakistan too, 1971 marks a watershed moment, its memories sitting uncomfortably in public imagination. It is remembered as the 'Fall of Dacca', the dismemberment of Pakistan or the third Indo-Pak war. In India, 1971 represents something else-the story of humanitarian intervention, of triumph and valour that paved the way for India's rise as a military power, the beginning of its journey to becoming a regional superpower. Navigating the widely varied terrain that is 1971 across Pakistan, Bangladesh and India, Anam Zakaria sifts through three distinct state narratives, and studies the institutionalization of the memory of the year and its events. Through a personal journey, she juxtaposes state narratives with people's history on the ground, bringing forth the nuanced experiences of those who lived through the war. Using intergenerational interviews, textbook analyses, visits to schools and travels to museums and sites commemorating 1971, Zakaria explores the ways in which 1971 is remembered and forgotten across countries, generations and communities.
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
ISBN: 9353057213
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
The year 1971 exists everywhere in Bangladesh-on its roads, in sculptures, in its museums and oral history projects, in its curriculum, in people's homes and their stories, and in political discourse. It marks the birth of the nation, it's liberation. More than 1000 miles away, in Pakistan too, 1971 marks a watershed moment, its memories sitting uncomfortably in public imagination. It is remembered as the 'Fall of Dacca', the dismemberment of Pakistan or the third Indo-Pak war. In India, 1971 represents something else-the story of humanitarian intervention, of triumph and valour that paved the way for India's rise as a military power, the beginning of its journey to becoming a regional superpower. Navigating the widely varied terrain that is 1971 across Pakistan, Bangladesh and India, Anam Zakaria sifts through three distinct state narratives, and studies the institutionalization of the memory of the year and its events. Through a personal journey, she juxtaposes state narratives with people's history on the ground, bringing forth the nuanced experiences of those who lived through the war. Using intergenerational interviews, textbook analyses, visits to schools and travels to museums and sites commemorating 1971, Zakaria explores the ways in which 1971 is remembered and forgotten across countries, generations and communities.
Pakistan: a Fashionable History
Author: Mehr Fatima Husain
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789692349109
Category : Clothing trade
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789692349109
Category : Clothing trade
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
The People Next Door
Author: T. C. A. Raghavan
Publisher: Hurst & Company
ISBN: 178738019X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Considers the relationship between India and Pakistan since the bloody Partition of 1947
Publisher: Hurst & Company
ISBN: 178738019X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Considers the relationship between India and Pakistan since the bloody Partition of 1947
Making of Librarianship in Pakistan
Author: Syed Jalaluddin Haider
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Islam in Pakistan
Author: Muhammad Qasim Zaman
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069121073X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069121073X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
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.