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A History of Pakistan and Its Origins

Posted on March 5, 2010 By Jamal Panhwar 3 Comments on A History of Pakistan and Its Origins

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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.

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Comments (3) on “A History of Pakistan and Its Origins”

  1. John Dunford says:
    March 5, 2010 at 10:58 pm

    This book is a window of enlightenment for any reader outlining the complexities of to uniting a number of ethnicities as one Islamic nation.

    Rating: 5 / 5

  2. Book Reader says:
    March 6, 2010 at 1:21 am

    The book approaches Pakistan from a number of perspectives, segregated into different sections, just as Cohen’s does. This strategy helps break down a very complex subject into realistic portions, as well as allow the reader to choose what angle — e.g., foreign relations, military, political — to concentrate on in any one time. HOWEVER, the book is either poorly written or poorly translated or both: at best, the writing is stilted and dense, and not fast-going; at worst, you might have to go back over a sentence or paragraph just to figure out what is trying to be said or if there is a point to the paragraph. Really, I don’t expect poor writing style to be an issue in commercially published books, but this is an exception. This being said, it is a wealth of info if you are willing to slog through it. Go with Cohen’s book first.
    Rating: 3 / 5

  3. pma says:
    March 6, 2010 at 3:43 am

    Every since September 11th, countless books about Pakistan have been published, each scrutizing its history as nothing but a state bent on growing the seeds of Islamic fundamentalism. This book is a welcome contrast, and hats off to Jaffrelot, a Frenchman, and his team for doing an extensive amount of research about the initial foundations of the country, all of the political tumult, the events leading to Bangladeshi secession and the tense relationship with India, the role as a proxy during the Cold War, the constitutional straying from Jinnah’s secular vision, and an invaluable lesson in ethnography and religion, described in much more detail than the average book on the country (for example, not only does it describe Sunnism and Shi’ism as being the two main branches of Islam practiced in the country, it delves into subsets and sub-subsets of each branch, so that the reader gets a much better understanding of the incredible religious diversity within the Pakistani Muslim community itself). The main compliment I have about this book is that it remains extremely academic and objective. Never is it written in an alarmist way, and it doesn’t favor one political movement over another. It refrains from sugarcoating any misdeeds of the government, the army, or the population, yet at the same time, it doesn’t resort to demonizing the nation, either. It just states how things are over there now, and how things were in the past. It is a much more fascinating and educational read (for Pakistanis and non-Pakistanis alike) than other “Beware Pakistan!” types written by so-called Western “experts” on the region who try to make the reader believe that the entire country is one big madrassah intent to destroying the United States (far from it), or “Pakistan – The Glorious” types written by heavily biased Pakistani writers who believe that every single thing wrong within the country is due to a “foreign hand.” If you would like to get a good base knowledge about the dynamics of this country caught within an extremely tumultuous global political game, put this book at the top of the list.
    Rating: 5 / 5

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