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Pakistan: A Modern History by Ian Talbot

Pakistan: A Modern History Ian Talbot ebook
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Page: 426
ISBN: 1850653518, 9781850653516
Format: pdf

Last month, while other pyalas scuttled off to the Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaf's (PTI's) Karachi jalsa with visions of free potty training seats in their heads, I stayed at home with a copy of Imran Khan's Pakistan, A Personal History. I had quite liked its chapters on the 60s, the bangladesh movement and the zia period. Coventry University historian Talbot piles fact upon grim fact to show how Pakistan, born in suffering, has yet to heal the wounds of its past. This primary source is essential to understanding the modern history of Islam in Pakistan and India and valuable for research on British diplomacy and the history of attempts to deal with terrorism in the colonies. To then continue the habit, as his opening sections of the book do, of simplistically constructing Pakistan's modern history by seeing it exclusively through things 'Islamic' and/or 'Muslim' is lamentable. Pdcs April 14, 2006 at 9:55 am. In the modern history of Pakistan, as in the larger development of Islamic ideas, the relationship between religion and ideology is neither one of identity nor instrumentality. Pakistan: A Modern History 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. Sepoy, you don't like the talbot modern history of pakistan, then? The modern history of Pakistan is filled with plots and sub-plots that confound easy analysis. For 65 years Pakistanis have been conducting one of modern history's great experiments: Can a nation conceived as Islamic be free and democratic-- the vision of Pakistan's founding father, Muhammad Ali Jinnah?