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HARF-E-SIRDAR
₨ 200ISBN: W2475 – Paperback
Publisher: SAHITYA AKADEMI
ISBN: Z1484
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HINDUTVA
₨ 1,295A hundred years ago, when Hitler’s third reich was little more than a nebulous concept of nationhood based qn racial inequality and exclusion, perhaps no one might have thought that the name of the individual and his “empire” would come to be associated with the gravest notions of immorality, atrocity, and ruination, in the history of mankind.
it is perhaps for this very reason that the fourth reich -in india, under hindutva- will never actually claim such a title for itself. This is little other than semantics, of course. Let there be no doubts at all,; irrespective of the name it might choose for itself, the fourth reich is alive and well, and growing ever more powerful, and polemical, with each passing day.
it is, thus, high time we awakened ourselves to – and are outraged by – the unspeakable acts of cruelty in the name of religion that are transpiring in india under the watchful eye of the fourth reich, today. The absence of opprobrium and censure to what we are witnessing today, will only render us liable to be judged by those that will inevitably follow us, for maintaining the most damning sort of neutrality in this time of moral crisis. We will be judged by history.
we must never allow that to happen.
ISBN: 9789694026510
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HISTORICAL HANDBOOK OF MUSLIM INDIA 1700-1947
₨ 1,000In 1992 Professor K K Aziz published a compendium on Muslim and non-Muslim political, religious and cultural parties, organizations and movements which flourished in India between 1850 and 1947 under the title of “Public Life in Muslim India” (Vanguard Books, Lahore). The present Handbook now makes available to historians and research scholars a wealth of additional information on the same subject.
In Volume One, Professor Aziz has collected all the historical demo-graphic data Of various religious groups, especially Muslims, relating to their sex, literacy rate, language, mother tongue, etc. He lists all the rulers in Indian history — from the Muslims (Ottoman Sultans, Mughuls Naw-abs, Nizams, Amirs) to the British (Monarchs, Prime Ministers, Secretar-ies of State, Chairmen of the East India Co, Governor Generals, Viceroys etc). He notes the Salutes and Warrants of procedure of the rulers of the native states and he lists all the Commissions and Committees of Inquiry during this period.
In Volume Two, Professor Aziz lists all the White Papers, political and constitutional developments, elections, legislators, saints and shrines of Muslim India. He details the organs of the press and the share of various religious groups in public life and services. A useful glossary of words and phrases is added at the end of this 760 page Handbook.
ISBN: D5838
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HISTORY OF SINDHI LITERATURE
₨ 795Sindhi, like Punjabi, Urdu and Bengali, is one of the languages of the sub-continent which goes back to the earliest recorded evidence of civilisation.
According to Grierson, it can be bracketed with Lahnda as one of the two languages of the north-west group of Sanskrit languages. John Beames characterized it as ‘infinitely more natural and captivating than anything which the hide-bound Pandit-ridden languages of the eastern part of India can show.’
The present history traces the development of Sindhi literature from its remote beginnings to 1947.
ISBN: 9694024498
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HONOUR AMONG SPIES
₨ 1,495In May 2018, a book was published that set off a perfect storm in the intelligence circles in the subcontinent, and made people in the spy community sit up around the world. What made The Spy Chronicles unusual was that two of its authors, A.S. Dulat and Asad Durrani, co-writing with journalist Aditya Sinha, had headed their respective spy agencies — Dulat had been chief of India’s RAW, and Lt Gen. Durrani of Pakistan’s ISI.
More remarkably, these former chiefs of two of the most powerful spy agencies in the world, which were also bitter rivals, discussed the necessity for peace and how the relationship between their two countries could be improved. The fallout of the book would result in Lt Gen. Durrani, a man who has been spoken of as one of the clearest and sharpest thinkers to head the ISI, being put on the exit control list and having his pension revoked.
Honour Among Spies is a fictional account of a spy who is sent out into the cold, but one that reflects all too accurately the predicament of a distinguished officer fighting to protect his reputation. Woven into the novel is a throwback to another famous incident the raid on Osama bin Laden, about whose hideaway and the raid itself Lt Gen. Durrani had made some prescient comments. These and other elements come together in this taut battle of wits that takes forward, in a way, the narrative of The Spy Chronicles.
ISBN: 9789694026435
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HOW WE MISSED THE STORY
₨ 995Focusing principally on events and policy missteps in Afghanistan in the 1980s and 1990s, award-winning journalist Roy Gutman weaves a narrative that exposes how and why the U.S. government, the United Nations, and the Western media “missed the story” in the leadup to 9/11. He advances this narrative carefully and persuasively and approaches his subject with an objective, journalistic eye, drawing heavily on his own original research and extensive interviews with key players both in the United States and abroad. Arguing that the U.S. government made a strategic mistake by categorizing bin Laden’s murderous assaults prior to 9/11 as terrorism, he ultimately concludes that the core failure was in the field of U.S. foreign policy. Sure to attract a wide audience, this first-rate, deeply engaging volume makes a highly original contribution to our understanding of the events and mistakes that ultimately led to 9/11 and offers much-needed insight so that such a story is not missed again.
ISBN: 9789694025124
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HOWZZAT?!
₨ 1,295Political satire is a staple of democracy. And this is satire at its brilliant best witty, pithy and hilarious. Cricketer turned politician Imran Khan’s fictional diary pushes the boundaries of censorship and intolerance. It is a must-read for all those interested in the endless drama, delusion, hypocrisy, ignorance, manipulation, ego mania and absurdity that is Pakistani power politics.
ISBN: 9789694025728
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HYBRID RULE IN PAKISTAN
₨ 2,295Since its creation as an independent state in 1947, Pakistan has alternated between authoritarian military regimes and ineffectual civilian rule. For most of its history, the country has been ruled by powerful military with short spans of elected civilian democracy in between. But since 2018 Pakistan has experimented with what many have described as hybrid rule. The system has been unique for many reasons. The security establishment has always been the determiner of national security and foreign policy in Pakistan but that role has become more pronounced under the lmran Khan government. Its extending shadow can be discerned in all dimensions of the state. In this book, collection of his columns, Zahid Hussain examines Pakistan’s experiment with a hybrid rule and its consequence.
ISBN: 9789694026350
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Hydro Politics and Water Wars in South Asia
₨ 1,495Water is an important input to irrigated agriculture. In Pakistan unfortunately, it is fast becoming a diminishing resource due to many reasons including global warming. To meet present and future requirements, water should be conserved in the country at as many places as possible. However, politics of water is not allowing it to happen.
Hydro-Politics in Indus River Basin by Iqtidar H. Siddiqui is a comprehensive commentary on the management and utilization of Indus River system waters both internationally and domestically and describes the Hydro-Political forces, which do not permit advancement in water sector in the country.
The book infect gives a ‘wake-up call’ to the country in view of diminishing water resources, expected ‘water disaster’ due to climate change and hydro-political forces in the country.
ISBN: 9789694025438
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IMPERIAL RULE IN PUNJAB 1818-1881
₨ 495ISBN: 0002152177 – Paperback
Publisher: HARPER COLLINS
ISBN: Z1500
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IMPERIAL RULE IN PUNJAB 1818-1881
₨ 300In this beautifully written and fully detailed study, J. Royal Roseberry makes a major contribution to understanding the interaction of the agents of the British Raj and local leadership and elites in the nineteenth century.
In extending their power over the subcontinent, the British encountered their most difficult and complex task in the Indus Valley, northwest of Delhi. In playing the imperial game on this turbulent frontier they were often overmatched and outwitted by local leaders and their forces. Nowhere was the challenge greater than in Multan, a historic Muslim city, where power shifted continuously among a wavering dynasty, Hindu merchants, and tribal mercenaries.
A new factor entered the political arena in the 1840s with the arrival of representatives of the East India Company. Herbert Edwardes contested successfully with Diwan Mulraj and, through 1857, the administrative and land revenue systems of the Company were haltingly applied.
As elsewhere in India, local leaders and elites sought advantages under the new system and evaded its burdens when they could. Continuing the story after the disturbances of 1857-58 Roseberry discusses the continued jostling for power among Multan’s Muslims, Hindus, and British interlopers. He devotes attention to the judicial and revenue administrations, economic growth and social dislocation, and the growing communal tensions after 1880.
ISBN: 9694024250
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IMRAN KHAN
₨ 1,795During last decade’s upsurge in the fortunes of populist politics in numerous countries, Imran Khan emerged as its central figure in Pakistan. Globally, Khan never became as prominent in this context as his populist contemporaries such as Donald Trump, Jair Bolsonaro, Narendra Modi, Boris Johnson and Viktor Orbán. But he was very much a product of the populist wave that began to sweep across various regions from 2010 onwards. In Imran Khan: Myth of the Pakistani Middle-Class, Nadeem Farooq Paracha explores the political, social and historical factors that led to Khan’s rise and his eventful fall as a politician. In so doing, Paracha also scrutinises the political and social dynamics of Khan’s core constituency, the urban middle-classes. He demonstrates how these classes have continued to sabotage their own political interests due to their stubborn search for ‘strongmen.’
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INDIA AND THE FRONTIER STATES OF AFGHANISTAN, NIPAL AND BURMA
₨ 1,295Essays of Lord Macaulay on Robert Clive and Warren Hastings are perhaps known to every English household; but they refer to more episodes in the history, and are wanting in that familiarity with native character and forms of thought which is essential to a right appreciation of the great collision between Europe and Asia that has been going on in India for the last two centuries.
The truth is that the preparation of a history of India, political and religious, is a far more difficult and laborious task than is generally imagined.
The author began work at Madras under every possible advantage. There were libraries containing almost unique collections of books pertaining to India. To these were added the government records at Madras, which were freely opened to the author by Sir Charles Trevelyan, who was at that time Governor.
The writer has no desire to carry the reader into his workshop, or to dwell on the extent of his labors. It will suffice to say that having sounded the depths of his ignorance, he has since then lost no opportunity, official or literary, to perfect his knowledge of Indian history.
His history of British India is now given for the first time in the present volumes. It is an entirely independent work, drawn direct from the fountain head, after a study of the records of the Government of India, official reports and parliamentary blue books, and annals, memoirs, travels, or correspondences, as have been found to yield historical materials.
ISBN: 9694023289
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INDIA WINS FREEDOM
₨ 1,495India Wins Freedom has at last won its own freedom. The full text of this autobiographical narrative was confined, under seal, in the National Library, Calcutta, and in the National Archives, New Delhi, for thirty years. In 1958 the ‘narrator’ Maulana Azad and his ‘writer’ Humayun Kabir had offered for publication a slightly abridged and revised version which left out ‘incidents and reflections mainly of a personal character’. That version underwent three large printings in the first year of publication and has been reprinted many times since then.
What we now have is the complete text, released in September 1988 by a court directive. Not only have all the words and phrases of the original been reproduced; the original tone and temper have been fully restored. The text now reveals that the controversy that has simmered for so long about the hitherto unpublished pages was fully justified. Those who have read the earlier version will quickly note the points on which this account differs from the earlier one. Those who have not read the earlier volume will find the present one as new and alive as it was when completed and put away in 1958.
Many of us may not agree fully with Maulana Azad’s forthright views on persons and events of the period (1935-48) but we shall be compelled to admire anew the honesty and courage of a great son of India.
ISBN: 969402014X
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INDIA-PAKISTAN RELATIONS 1962-1969
₨ 795Of the many problems which India and Pakistan have confronted since 1947, the most destructive has been their unsatisfactory relationship with each other.
The roots of this behavior were established during the course of events which brought about the creation and birth of Pakistan. Several conflicts later, including one which led to the dismemberment of Pakistan, the suspicion and hostility which characterizes relations between the two countries, after over 40 years as sovereign nation-states, is unparalleled in the history of international relations after the second world war.
Dennis Wright’s study focuses on the legacy of • the Sino-Indian conflict and how it sheds light on India’s perception ‘of the threat from Pakistan’. He examines the origins and aftermath of the issue of Kashmir and the Rann of Kutch, the implications of the Soviet Union’s close relationship with India and Pakistan’s with the US. He also discusses the movements for regional autonomy in Pakistan and what bearing these have had on Indo-Pak relations.
Wright’s argument is that, because both sides’ attitudes are so deeply ingrained, neither side has been in a position to act in the best interests of the peoples of the subcontinent as a whole.
The book draws on a mass of original data, including parliamentary debates of the period, UN records and documents, Indian, Pakistani and British newspapers and contemporary sources in books and journals
ISBN: 9694020166
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INDIA-PAKISTAN RELATIONS 1962-1969
₨ 895Of the many problems which India and Pakistan have confronted since 1947, the most destructive has been their unsatisfactory relationship with each other.
The roots of this behavior were established during the course of events which brought about the creation and birth of Pakistan. Several conflicts later, including one which led to the dismemberment of Pakistan, the suspicion and hostility which characterizes relations between the two countries, after over 40 years as sovereign nation-states, is unparalleled in the history of international relations after the second world war.
Dennis Wright’s study focuses on the legacy of • the Sino-Indian conflict and how it sheds light on India’s perception ‘of the threat from Pakistan’. He examines the origins and aftermath of the issue of Kashmir and the Rann of Kutch, the implications of the Soviet Union’s close relationship with India and Pakistan’s with the US. He also discusses the movements for regional autonomy in Pakistan and what bearing these have had on Indo-Pak relations.
Wright’s argument is that, because both sides’ attitudes are so deeply ingrained, neither side has been in a position to act in the best interests of the peoples of the subcontinent as a whole.
The book draws on a mass of original data, including parliamentary debates of the period, UN records and documents, Indian, Pakistani and British newspapers and contemporary sources in books and journals
ISBN: Y4027
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INDIA, PAKISTAN, AND THE UNITED STATES
₨ 795In “India, Pakistan, and the United States”, Dr Shirin Tahir-Kheli points out that the end of the Cold War and the rise of a new generation of Indians and Pakistanis willing to break with the past and concentrate on economic development provide opportunities for all three countries. Sustained American involvement in South Asia — previously the United States has tended to focus on the region only during periods of international crisis —could both generate major economic opportunities for the United States in one of the world’s largest markets and help solve the difficult issues of Kashmir and nuclear proliferation.
Discussing South Asia’s disputes, alliance, and alignments, its role in the Cold War, and the prospects for controlling the spread of nuclear weapons, the author considers the past, present and future relations among India, Pakistan and the United States. This book is a valuable contribution to improving American understanding of two of the world’s most populous countries.
ISBN: 9694022916
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INDIAN MUSLIMS
₨ 2,495India is projected to have the world’s largest Muslim population surpassing Pakistan and Indonesia by the middle of this century. This book makes a compelling case that Indian Muslims have not been equal beneficiaries of India’s economic growth. Their status now is not very different from that of the lowest-ranked Dalits in Indian society. The evidence shows that socio-economic status of the Indian Muslim community has been slipping for a long time. The book challenges the dominant image among majority Hindus that Muslims are innately prone to religious fundamentalism, militancy and extremism. Using information from official reports and data from a survey of Muslims from ten Indian states, the book explores the architecture of Muslim religiosity, the status of Muslim women, social and political attitudes and their socio-economic well-being. The evidence defies the myth of religious orthodoxy and shows that Indian Muslims are less orthodox and patriarchal than their co-religionists from Muslim majority countries. Theoretically informed and empirically grounded analysis and discussion in the book offers fresh insights into the social, political and economic conditions of Indian Muslims in the current context of rising Islamophobia and anti-Muslim rhetoric in India. This is undermining the constitutionally mandated promise of equality of citizenship and opportunity to all Indian citizens including minorities.
ISBN: 9789694026466
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INSIDE AL QAEDA
₨ 995A definitive work on Al Qaeda, this book is based on five years of research, including extensive interviews with Al Qaeda members: field research in Al Qaeda-supported conflict zones around the globe: and monitoring of Al Qaeda’s infiltration of diaspora and migrant communities in North America and Europe.
This book sheds light on Al Qaeda’s financial infrastructure and how the organization trains combat soldiers and vanguard fighters for multiple guerrilla, terrorist and semi conventional campaigns in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, the Caucasus, and the Balkans. In addition, the author investigates the clandestine Al Qaeda operational network in the West.
Gunaratna reveals how the charismatic fanatic Osama bin Laden provides much of the brainpower and most of the inspiration behind Al Qaeda
– How Osama bin Laden had his mentor and Al Qaeda founder ‘Azzam’ assassinated in order to take over the organization and how other Al Qaeda officers who stood in his way were murdered
– How Al Qaeda planned to destroy the British Parliament on September 11 and to spew nerve gas on the European Parliament
– How the lran-Hezbollah-Al Qaeda link provided the knowledge required to conduct coordinated, simultaneous attacks on multiple targets, including failed plans to destroy Los Angeles International Airport, USS The Sullivans, the Radisson Hotel in Jordan, and eleven US commercial airliners over the Pacific Ocean
– That one-fifth of international Islamic charities and NGOs are infiltrated by Al Qaeda
– How the US response is effective militarily in the short term but insufficient to counter Al Qaeda’s ideology and strategy in the long term.
Gunaratna shows that for Al Qaeda to be destroyed there needs to be a multipronged, multiagency, and multidimensional response by the international community.
ISBN: 969402370X
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INTRODUCTION TO THE PRACTICE OF THE DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
₨ 595The invention of the DDC has played a vital role in giving a direction and shape to the modern librarianship. It is not for nothing that Melvil Dewey is given the appellation of the father of modern librarianship.
The book has undergone 18 revisions to keep itself abreast of the ever advancing frontiers of knowledge and to cater to the increasing demand of its users. The 19th revision is presently underway. In every revision, it has been expanded, modified, rectified and made more modern in methods by applying the results of the latest research in library classification.
The book simply aims to introduce students to the process of assigning and especially synthesising the class numbers by the 19th edition of the DDC.
ISBN: 9694024609
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IS ISLAM SECULARIZABLE?
₨ 1,495IS ISLAM SECULARIZABLE? Is the third and final volume of essays by Sadik al-Azm on the broad theme of secularism, fundamentalism and the meaning of Islam.
ISBN: 9789694025698
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ISLAM, GLOBALISATION AND MODERNITY
₨ 1,100It is more than a mere coincidence that in 1992 when the Euro-American world celebrated the five hundredth anniversary of the Columbian campaign to the Indies, Muslims in Bosnia bled in the longest-ever siege in European history. Cities like Sarajevo, Mostar, Vitez, Gorazde, Ahmici, Banja Luka, Pale, Srebrenica and several other small towns across this beautiful, mountainous Balkan peninsula suffered the worst-ever destruction in recent history. But while Bosnia burned, the United Nations, the EU and the Muslim regions watched passively. Was Bosnia a unique case where the primordial identities struck back jingoistically or is it a microcosm of a Third World-wide malady where the processes of globalisation and modernity have gone haywire, causing serious fragmentation? Can we define it simply as the revival of age-old rivalries, or could it be characterised as an anarchic void following the dissolution of a state-based centralism?
The relationship between modernity and Islam is still a largely under-researched intellectual realm, though the erstwhile discourse defining it as a contestation between tradition and modernity, universalism and cultural particularism, or between change and stagnation, is gradually giving way to a fresher academic perspective. The ‘recent’ forces of modernity brought into the Muslim heartland by colonialism and highlighted by post-coloniality and mobility have intensified the debate on Muslim identity itself. The Bosnians, especially the Bosnaks/Bosniaks, have been undisputedly European, rooted in a secularist vision of Islam, pursuing modernity with full force in reference to liberalism, rationalism, feminism and, of course, pluralism. Their nationalist aspirations never hinged on religio-lingual monoethnicity, yet still they suffered from the most harrowing crimes ever committed against a human community. In other words, here it was not Islam battling against modernity, rather the latter itself became disputed and went wild, negating the entire thesis of clash of civilisations or Islam being static or pre-modern. The very core of this modernity, nationalism became the most reactionary weapon for ethnic cleansing. Subsequent upon the dissolution of communist centralism, the ideological vacuum in the former Eastern bloc is being claimed by xenophobic nationalism in collusion with religious extremism. This phenomenon largely explains the ethnic cleansing in the Balkans. The Balkan tragedy is a mixture of old and new; globalisation and peripheralisation; integration and fragmentation, and a contestation between primordial and modernist loyalties.
ISBN: 9694023806
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ISLAM: SUBMISSION AND DISOBEDIENCE
₨ 1,495Islam: Submission and disobedience is the second of three volumes of essays by Sadik al-azm on the board theme of secularism, fundamentalism and the meaning of Islam.
ISBN: 9789694025674
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ISLAMIC CONTRIBUTION TO SOUTH ASIA’S CLASSICAL MUSIC
₨ 595It takes centuries for the music of a country or a people to acquire its distinctive features. It evolves and grows with new technological skills, a wider range of mental faculties and deeper and higher spiritual aspirations. With the advent of Muslims into South Asia, music gained a fresh life and elan. Different styles of classical musical modes like Dhrupad, Dhammar, Sadra, Khayal, Tappa, Tarana, and Thumri were developed to a high degree of refinement and different types of musical instruments—the sarod, sitar, tabla, and the sarangi—were introduced. Some of the old traditional ones were modified and improved in range and timbre and tone. New Ragas and Raginis were devised and embellished with the amalgam of what already existed in the subcontinent with the traditions brought in by Muslims from Persian, Arab, Turkish sources.
This book presents a descriptive sketch of the formative influences brought in by Islam—those that have left their permanent imprint on the music of the region. It also includes a compilation of different Ragas prevalent in the subcontinent in a compact format.
Musician, music researcher and writer, Mobarak Hossain Khan has made a valuable contribution to music as a Surbahar player. He is currently a Director of Radio Bangladesh. He comes of a family of music lovers and practitioners. He is the third son of Ustad Ayet Ali Khan, a great musician of the subcontinent.
ISBN: B9999
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ISLAMIC FUNDAMENTALISM IN PAKISTAN, EGYPT AND IRAN
₨ 895This book examines the dynamics of the Islamic revivalist movements in the contemporary period. The manifestation of the phenomenon is diverse and varies considerably across a broad spectrum of behaviour. Specific cases of several movements, both Shi’ite and Sunni, radical and moderate, are examined.
The unit of analysis is the selected organizations. How they function depends primarily on the political system and the socio-economic and political milieu of the concerned state. Developments of networking among some Islamists outside immediate perimeters are examined.
Comparisons are made between the strategies, structures and ideologies of the most important of these movements. The Islamic Revolution in Iran is probed for unique qualities and differences between the Sunni and Shi’ite organizations are analyzed and explained. The countries of Iran, Egypt and Pakistan have been selected due to their representativeness.
All three are considered hotbeds of Islamic revivalism and have significantly influenced trends of the movement in the rest of the Islamic world. This is an absolutely indispensable book for those who wish to understand the compulsions behind the revival of Islamic sentiments and militancy in the third world.
ISBN: 969402263X
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ISLAMIC REASSERTION IN PAKISTAN
₨ 250In 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: 9694020069 – Hardback
Publisher: VANGUARD BOOKS
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ISLANDS OF HOPE
₨ 1,195In the words of Dr Akther Hameed Khan:
Idealism
I hope that somehow, idealism is reborn… Idealists don’t live for their own benefit, but want to serve others. Where you have idealism, you have God’s blessings. Where you have good intentions, you have God’s blessings. When you work for others and have good intentions, progress is inevitable. Choose to serve God by doing good, honest work for other people rather than furthering malice by fulfilling your own selfish ambitions and greed.
Sacrifice and hard work
A nation has to be ready to work hard and make sacrifices if it wants to progress. The basic principle of development was summed up by Winston Churchill in his address to the British people, when he said: “I have nothing to promise you except blood, tears and sweat.” This is what our politicians should be telling us because our country is in a very precarious state. Instead they make us false promises…
Role of the government
The role of the people is more important than the role of the government. When Churchill was retired, people told him “you were a lion”. He replied: “No, I was not the lion. It was the nation that had the lion’s heart. My task was only to bring out the roar”. The government can do the big works – treatment plants, nullahs for sewerage, roads etc. – the rest the people will have to do themselves. And they should not take donor money for this work, either.
Persistence
There is only one way of working amongst the people and that is persistence. It is like a drop of water continuously falling on a stone and making a dent in it. People will cooperate whenever there is a meaningful activity…
NGOs can’t reform the government
NGOs can’t change the government, people can. There is a saying: “Our angels reflect the nature of our spirit”. After all, why is there not as much stealing going on in the government in a country like the USA? It is not that the American government officials are inherently more honest – it is just that the people there won’t let them steal and get away it. They will even kick out their president if he does something wrong. People will fix the government, not the NGOs.
Institutions
We have the same institutions as other countries – we also have universities, national airlines etc. Lyallpur Agriculture University and Chandigarh University were established at the same time – but look at the difference between them today. We also have the same parliamentary system as England, but their system works. It is not the question of the structure of institutions – it is of the people who run them. It is the people who have ruined the institutions.
Reward
If you expect material reward from this kind of work, you will fail. Don’t waste money either on unnecessary expenses. But if your approach is that of building an ashram or khanqua where one has to live simply and bear much suffering, but one is still determined not to lose hope, then you will succeed. You will attain your goals.
ISBN: 9789694025421
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JANUBI ASIA MAIN PANI PER SIASAT AUR KHOFNAAK JANGOON KAY KHATRAAT
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JINNAH
₨ 3,995Mohammad Ali Jinnah has been both celebrated and reviled for his role in the Partition of India, and the controversies surrounding his actions have only increased since his death. Ishtiaq Ahmed places Jinnah’s actions under intense scrutiny to ascertain the Quaid-i-Azam’s successes and failures, and the meaning and significance of his legacy. Using a wealth of contemporary records and archival material, he traces Jinnah’s journey from an Indian nationalist to a Muslim communitarian, and then from a Muslim nationalist to, finally, Pakistan’s all-powerful head of state. How did the ambassador of Hindu Muslim unity become the inflexible votary of the two-nation theory? Did Jinnah envision Pakistan as a theocratic state? What was federalism? Asking these crucial questions his position on Mahatma Gandhi and against the backdrop of the turbulent struggle against British colonialism, Jinnah is a path-breaking examination of one of the most controversial figures of the twentieth century.
ISBN: 9789694026329
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JINNAH: MYTH AND REALITY
₨ 1,495This book is not a biography, it is the author’s view of why Jinnah hailed as the best ambassador of Hindu-Muslim Unity ended up making a separate state in the subcontinent and what his views were on the future shape of Pakistan. Was Pakistan going to be a democratic state? What would be the role of religion in Pakistan? Was Pakistan the consequence of a millennial in stone or was it merely a counter-argument? The author attempts to answer these questions in the present work.
ISBN: 9789694025605
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KALABAGH DAM
₨ 1,295“Kalabagh Dam: Sifting Fact from Fiction” provides a comprehensive account of events and perceptions related to Pakistan’s most controversial issue. Developed by WAPDA as an engineering project related to water storage, the Kalabagh Dam has now become a victim of political posturing.
An effort has been made in this book to identify those developments which have led us to the present impasse, including the real facts that lie buried deep in the official record, as well as previous attempts to develop a national consensus on the subject. The book also narrates water sector challenges faced by Pakistan and how other countries around the world have successfully resolved similar issues. This effort to remove myths nurtured on regional fears and apprehensions should hopefully pave the way in developing a consensual approach in tackling critical water issues, including Kalabagh Dam.
A timely and indispensable book on a critical subject by an authority of repute and experience.
ISBN: 9789694026015
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KASHMIR
₨ 995Uniquely representing all sides in the conflict over Kashmir, this innovative new book provides a forum for discussion not only of existing proposals for ending the conflict, but also of possible new paths toward settlement. Contributors from India, Pakistan, and Kashmir explore the national and sub national dimensions of the ongoing hostilities, the role of the international community, and future prospects. The result is an informed overview of the present state of affairs—and a realistic examination of the potential for peaceful resolution.
ISBN: 9789694025254
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KASHMIRIYAT
₨ 995The two unique and memorable events that South Asia Foundation (SAF) organized in Srinagar to commemorate the Bhakti-Sufi-Rishi culture of Kashmiriyat, featured a jointly held India/Pakistan music concert Junoon and the Singhs, and an unprecedented exhibition of paintings by South Asian women artists.
Madanjeet Singh narrates an account of these events, providing insights into age-old links between the music and art of South Asia and the pluralist culture and legacy of Kashmiriyat.
At the inaugural ceremony of the Institute of Kashmir Studies on 26 May 2008, Madanjeet Singh presented President Pratibha Patil with a copy of his book, This My People, to which Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru handwrote a preface. shortly after India’s Partition in 1947. Published in 1989, its several language editions were reviewed and acclaimed worldwide. The French weekly L’Express wrote a three-page article and the eminent art critic of The International Herald Tribune, Souren Melikian called it an ‘astonishing book of photographs (see cover image of Aasi), a mental journey through the India Madanjeet loves so much’. The famous film producer, Ismail Merchant, praised the aesthetic merits and historical value of the book’ in a full-page review published in The New York Times.
ISBN: 9789694025346
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KICKSTARTING PAKISTAN’S ECONOMY
₨ 895The author develops a broad strategy for the development of the private sector on the basis of an analytical review of the broad range of constraints and opportunities confronting the private sector in Pakistan.
The analysis is set in the context of a profile of the private sector and a discussion of government policies during the 1990s that impacted its environment.
The book describes private sector activities to highlight the diverse nature and size of activities requiring a variety of different supporting policies.
To place economic performance in proper perspective, it describes the range of reforms undertaken by the government to support the private sector in the financial sector, fiscal area, export promotion, investment, privatization, and the foreign exchange regime.
The reform process carries costs in the short-term apart from those associated with poor sequencing or deficient design. The author also analyses the macroeconomic constraints and discusses the lack of consistency in sectoral policies, deficiencies in incentive policies, the continuing problems in agriculture and the remaining agenda in the financial sector.
ISBN: 9694023564
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LAHORE LAHORE AYE
₨ 1,295A. Hameed has always had the remarkable gift of bringing the past to life. His reminiscences of Lahore as it was in the early years of independence and through the 1950s are to be treasured because such evocative writing is rare in our literature. He writes about the city and he writes about his friends and those he came across in a long career entirely devoted to writing. His memories of old Lahore are like periscopes through which we can relive those times and catch a glimpse of the men who made the city what it was. That Lahore has passed on, as have many of those in whose company the young A. Hameed walked its streets. But in a way they are not gone, because he brings them back to life and with it the city as it once was. The old restaurants of Lahore are gone. So is the old Radio Pakistan, which did what it could, within its modest means, to keep A. Hameed and his friends, in tea and cigarettes, something that was enough to keep them happy. A Hameed takes us to the Coffee House, where we see Maulana Charagh Hasan Hasrat surrounded by friends, waiting to be served. “Maulana, is that white-bearded waiter the one who took your order?” someone asks. “It was quite black when I placed the order,” replies Maulana. With A. Hameed we return to a Lahore whose roads knew no more than the occasional car. We are back there on a dear winter day, with white pigeons flying in droves in the blue sky, and the trees waving gently in the breeze. This book brings together columns that A. Hameed wrote for Daily Times, which Khalid Hasan translated into English. So welcome to old Lahore, its history, its food, its people, its musicians, its writers, its streets, its wrestling pits, its theatres, its most memorable characters, in short, the entire unique culture that makes Lahore, well, Lahore.
ISBN: 9789694025117
Publisher: VANGUARD BOOKS
