Pakistan: A Very Short Introduction

by Pippa Virdee

Overview

Pippa Virdee considers the history of Pakistan, created as a new nation state in 1947, placing it in the context of the region's four-thousand-year-old pre-colonial heritage. She discusses Pakistan's religion and society, the state and the military, popular culture, language and literature, as well as its relationship with the rest of the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780192586391
Publisher:	OUP Oxford
Publication date:	11/25/2021
Series:	Very Short Introductions
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	152
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Dr. Pippa Virdee is a reader in Modern South Asian History at De Montfort University. Virdee is the author of From the Ashes of 1947: Reimagining Punjab (CUP, 2017), and Coming to Coventry, Stories from the South Asian Pioneers (Herbert Gallery, 2006), and is co-editor of Refugees and the End of Empire: Imperial Collapse and Forced Migration in the Twentieth Century (Palgrave Macmillan, 2011), with P. Panayi.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements xvii

List of illustrations xix

Abbreviations xxi

1 Progress of a dream 1

2 The ancient in the modem 10

3 Towards the idea of Pakistan 22

4 Consolidation and fragmentation 42

5 Building the land of the pure 59

6 Visualizing the land of the pure 73

7 The world outside 92

8 Looking backwards, going forward? 111

Timeline and key moments 121

Glossary 125

References and further reading 127

Index 135