The History Of Pakistan

Author : Christophe Jaffrelot
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781843311492
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A History of Pakistan and Its Origins written by Christophe Jaffrelot and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 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 : James Wynbrandt
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
ISBN 13 : 081606184X
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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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 : Syed Jalaluddin Haider
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making of Librarianship in Pakistan written by Syed Jalaluddin Haider and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Imran Khan
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0857500643
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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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 : Muhammad Qasim Zaman
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069121073X
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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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 : Farahnaz Ispahani
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190621656
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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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 : Ayesha Jalal
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674744993
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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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 : Iftikhar Malik
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 : 0313341370
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Pakistan written by Iftikhar Malik and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 2008-07-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the history of the unique Indo-Muslim nation of Pakistan, from the ancient Indus Valley Civilization to coming of Islam to the ongoing and volatile feud with India over the region of Kashmir.

Author : Ian Talbot
Publisher : Hurst & Company
ISBN 13 : 9781850659891
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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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 : M. Asghar Khan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780199064847
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book We've Learnt Nothing from History written by M. Asghar Khan and published by . This book was released on 2012-02-11 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Air Marshal (Retired) M. Asghar Khan presents an insider's view of Pakistan's struggle for democracy from the 1960s to the present. The book expounds on the early entry of Pakistan's armed forces into the country's politics and the author's opposition to military rule that beganin 1968 with the Movement for the Restoration of Democracy. This movement resulted in the ouster of President Muhammad Ayub Khan in 1969 after eleven years of military rule. The author describes his continued opposition to autocratic and dictatorial rule, especially General Yahya Khan's policy ofbrutal suppression through military action in East Pakistan. He also recounts his strong criticism of the General's refusal to hand over power to Sheikh Mujibur Rehman and the Awami League - winners of the first-ever free and fair general elections held in Pakistan.The author recalls Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's rise to political power during the 1970s, and General Ziaul Haq's dogmatic and iron-fisted military rule during the 1980s, and elaborates on some pertinent features of Pakistan's domestic and international situation. The book concludes with the author'sassessment of General Pervez Musharraf's five years in power consequent upon the re-entry of the armed forces in the country's politics in 1999, after a brief and tumultuous interlude with democracy.