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HAUFF ON SEN TEN DAYS IN CALCUTTA
₨ 232In this book, murder is viewed in the cultural specificity of Pakistan. The author shows how several peculiar factors – traditional safeguarding of the family relational system, land, historic notions of vengeance, baradari ties, the concept of honour etc – are all related to the cause and effect of murder and homicide in Pakistan.
The author also examines the secular nature of the Pakistani penal code in a country which apparently derives its raison d’etre from the spirit of Islam. The study is based on a sample survey of convicted murderers in the New Central Jail, Multan, the largest federal institution in the country which houses convicts from all over the country.
The author carried out exhaustive interviews and supplemented these findings with published data on homicide over a large period of time. Finally, his conclusions are compared to those of other studies from different cultures. This is the first major study on this subject to be published anywhere and is an invaluable source of primary material for further research.
ISBN: 9694020077 – Paperback
Publisher: VANGUARD BOOKS
ISBN: 8170460395
Publisher: SEAGULL BOOKS -
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OLD MAPS AND NEW
₨ 368“This was the city from which my grandmother, hugging two teenage sons close to her, had boarded a ship packed tight with refugees heading for Bombay – never to see her homeland again”. With this sentence starts a journey across time and several borders – including those of the mind – as the author begins a quest back into the past to understand how dislocation and the loss of home impacts on families and how it interweaves with history to create the present we inhabit. This compelling journal criss-crosses a landscape consisting of the contemporary, the past, the peace movement and the women’s movement in India and Pakistan, moving from the deeply personal to broader social and historic concerns and back again. This is a rare and deeply moving piece of introspection, brimming with the energy of actual experience seen through the eyes of a woman whose own background in literature, women’s studies and social activism forms the perspective from which she speaks.
ISBN: 8170462223
Publisher: SEAGULL BOOKS -
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