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The Dual City
Author | : Yasmeen Lari |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : |
The first book that provides an incisive look at the evolution of Karachi's urban fabric and architecture as influenced by the political order of its time, presenting an understanding of this city's history as never before.
Culture and Imperialism
Author | : Edward W. Said |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2012-10-24 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0307829650 |
A landmark work from the author of Orientalism that explores the long-overlooked connections between the Western imperial endeavor and the culture that both reflected and reinforced it. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as the Western powers built empires that stretched from Australia to the West Indies, Western artists created masterpieces ranging from Mansfield Park to Heart of Darkness and Aida. Yet most cultural critics continue to see these phenomena as separate. Edward Said looks at these works alongside those of such writers as W. B. Yeats, Chinua Achebe, and Salman Rushdie to show how subject peoples produced their own vigorous cultures of opposition and resistance. Vast in scope and stunning in its erudition, Culture and Imperialism reopens the dialogue between literature and the life of its time.
Making Sense of Pakistan
Author | : Farzana Shaikh |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2018-11-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190929111 |
Pakistan's transformation from supposed model of Muslim enlightenment to a state now threatened by an Islamist takeover has been remarkable. Many account for the change by pointing to Pakistan's controversial partnership with the United States since 9/11; others see it as a consequence of Pakistan's long history of authoritarian rule, which has marginalized liberal opinion and allowed the rise of a religious right. Farzana Shaikh argues the country's decline is rooted primarily in uncertainty about the meaning of Pakistan and the significance of 'being Pakistani'. This has pre-empted a consensus on the role of Islam in the public sphere and encouraged the spread of political Islam. It has also widened the gap between personal piety and public morality, corrupting the country's economic foundations and tearing apart its social fabric. More ominously still, it has given rise to a new and dangerous symbiosis between the country's powerful armed forces and Muslim extremists. Shaikh demonstrates how the ideology that constrained Indo-Muslim politics in the years leading to Partition in 1947 has left its mark, skillfully deploying insights from history to better understand Pakistan's troubled present.
Britain's Oceanic Empire
Author | : H. V. Bowen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 485 |
Release | : 2012-05-31 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 110702014X |
A comparative study of how the British managed the expansion of empire in the Atlantic and Indian Ocean.
Planter Raj to Swaraj
Author | : Amalendu Guha |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 364 |
Release | : 2021-02-25 |
Genre | : Assam (India) |
ISBN | : 9789382381341 |
This is a re-issue of Amalendu Guha's influential work on Assam and the Northeast, 30 years after its original publication, with a new introduction by the author. Guha's analysis extends from Assam in 1826, the year of the British annexation, to the post-independence conditions in 1950. The peculiar features of the region's plantation economy; the imperialism of opium cultivation; the problems of a stready influx of immigrants and the backlash of a local linguistic chauvinism; peasants' and workers' struggles; the evolution of the ryot sabhas, the Congress, trade unions and later of the Communist Party - such are the themes that have received attention in this book, alongside an analysis of legislative and administrative processes.The narrative is structured chronologically within an integrated Marxist framework of historical perspective, and is based on a wide range of primary sources.
Beyond Religion in India and Pakistan
Author | : Virinder S. Kalra |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2019-12-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1350041769 |
Drawing on insights from theoretical engagements with borders and subalternity, Beyond Religion in India and Pakistan suggests new frameworks for understanding religious boundaries in South Asia. It looks at the ways in which social categories and structures constitute the bordering logics inherent within enactments of these boundaries, and positions hegemony and resistance through popular religion as an important indication of wider developments of political and social change. The book also shows how borders are continually being maintained through violence at national, community and individual levels. By exploring selected sites and expressions of piety including shrines, texts, practices and movements, Virinder S. Kalra and Navtej K. Purewal argue that the popular religion of Punjab should neither be limited to a polarised picture between formal, institutional religion, nor the 'enchanted universe' of rituals, saints, shrines and village deities. Instead, the book presents a picture of 'religion' as a realm of movement, mobilization, resistance and power in which gender and caste are connate of what comes to be known as 'religious'. Through extensive ethnographic research, the authors explore the reality of the complex, dynamic and contested relations that characterize everyday material and religious lives on the ground. Ultimately, the book highlights how popular religion challenges the borders and boundaries of religious and communal categories, nationalism and theological frameworks while simultaneously reflecting gender/caste society.
The Aftermath of Partition in South Asia
Author | : Gyanesh Kudaisya |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 343 |
Release | : 2004-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134440480 |
The Aftermath of Partition in South Asia draws upon new theoretical insights and fresh bodies of data to historically reappraise partition in the light of its long aftermath.