The Great Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan
By Yasmin Khan
The partition of India in 1947 promised its people both political freedom and a future free of religious strife. Instead, the geographical divide effected an even greater schism of the population, benefiting the few at the expense of the very many, exposing huge numbers of the population to devastating consequences. [...]
karachiwala: a subcontinent within a city
By Rumana Husain
Karachiwala: a subcontinent within a city, describes the diversity and change within Karachi, as a microcosm and not only for Pakistan but of the entire South Asian region. A selection of interviews converges into a unique celebration of the people and their chosen city.
Karachiwala offers a [...]
What Islam Did For Us: Understanding Islam’s Contribution to Western Civilization
By Tim Wallace-Murphy
In these troubled and extremist times, when the religion and culture of Islam are under seemingly perpetual attack, it is salutary to consider how much we, in the Christian West, have in common with, and how much we owe to, the spiritual insights of that great culture. Religious [...]
The Mughal World: India’s Tainted Paradise
By Abraham Eraly
In The Mughal World Abraham Eraly continues his fascinating chronicle of the grand saga of the Mughal Empire. In Emperors of the Peacock Throne he gave us the story of the lives and achievements of the great Mughal emperors; in this book, he looks beyond the momentous [...]
Kashmir : The Untold Story
By Humra Quraishi
Since 1989, Kashmir has rarely been out of the headlines, as local militants, foreign terrorists and Indian security forces battle it out in a region once known as `paradise on earth’. In all the propaganda, and news and statistics about terrorist strikes, counter insurgency operations and the foreign hand, the [...]
A Journey Through Pakistan
By Mohamed Amin
Ancient and mysterious, for centuries the land which is now Pakistan has attracted scholars and mystics, adventurers and mercenaries. Up its craggy defiles have climbed such warrior as Alexander the Great and Genghis Khan, in search of plunder and glory. More peacefully, its cities of Harappa and Moenjodaro were at the [...]
When Asia Was the World
By Stewart Gordon
How Asia’s great civilization spread when its traveling merchants, scholars, and holy men brought their shining civilization to Europe’s Dark Ages. While European intellectual, cultural, and commercial life stagnated during the early medieval period, Asia flourished as the wellspring of science, philosophy, and religion. Linked [...]
Pakistan: A Modern History
By Ian Talbot
This book fills the need for a broad, historically sophisticated understanding of Pakistan, a country at fifty which is understood by many in the West only in terms of stereotypes–the fanatical, authoritarian and reactionary “other” which is unfavorably compared to a tolerant, democratic and progressive India. There is a need at the time [...]
Jahangir: A Connoisseur Of Mughal Art
By Sanjeev P. Srivastava
This book is the author’s third great work showing the character and personality of Prince Salim who ruled India after the death of Akbar. The present study based on authentic primary sources attempts to present the artistic heritage of his ancestors followed by his own innovations known as Muraqqas in miniature painting [...]
Empires of the Indus: From Tibet to Pakistan – The Story of a River
By Alice Albinia
One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains, flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. For millennia it has been worshipped as a god; for centuries used as a tool of imperial expansion; today it is the cement [...]
