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What is Pakistan? The name refers to a seventy-year-old post-colonial product of the bloodiest partition of territory and population that accompanied the end of British empire in South Asia. But the region of the Indus Valley has a four-thousand-year-old history, and was the site of one of the earliest and greatest riverine civilisations in the world. Although the modern nation of Pakistan as we know it was created as a homeland for the Muslims of British India, it is impossible to understand the complex tapestry of linguistic, ethnic, and cultural identities and tensions of the region without tracing its deep past.This Very Short Introduction looks at Pakistan as one of the two nation-states of the Indian sub-continent that emerged in 1947. Pippa Virdee reaches into the ancient past to demonstrate the influence of trajectories of human settlement and civilisation on Pakistan's contemporary political arena, and shows how the longer continuities between the land and its peoples are as important as the short-term changes in the political landscape. She considers Pakistan's religion and society, the state and the military, everyday life, popular culture, languages and literature, as well as Pakistan's relationship with the rest of the world. Virdee also looks to the challenges of the 21st century and the future of Pakistan.Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
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This book revisits the partition of the British Indian province of Punjab, its attendant violence and, as a consequence, the divided and dislocated Punjabi lives. Navigating nostalgia and trauma, dreams and laments, identity(s) and homeland(s), it explores the partition of the very idea of Punjabiyat. It was Punjab (along with Bengal) that was divided to create the new nations of India and Pakistan. In subsequent years, religious and linguistic sub-divisions followed - arguably, no other region of the sub-continent has had its linguistic and ethnic history submerged within respective national and religious identity(s). None paid the price of partition like the pluralistic, pre-partition Punjab. This work analyses the dissonance, distortion and dilution witnessed by Punjab and presents a detailed narrative of its past.
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This exciting collection of interdisciplinary essays studies the cultural history of Coventry’s global populations.Coventry has long been a place where diverse cultures mix. Attracting workers, traders and artisans, as well as migrants, refugees and students, the city is home to an incredible range of global and local communities and yet, until now, its place in the history of English cities, urban studies, and British social history has been obscure. Global Coventry: Migration, Diaspora and Place-Making offers an insightful and novel collection of essays by historians, sociologists, geographers and community-based scholars to make the case for Coventry’s significance across these disciplines. Focusing in particular on Coventry’s Black, Asian and minority ethnic communities, Global Coventry contributes to histories of place-making by foregrounding race, gender, class and sexuality as essential to our understanding of the concept. The collection demonstrates how global flows of goods and people brought about major transformation to the city’s landscape at the same time as illustrating how social and racialised minorities navigated their marginalisation within local, national and global structures.Across thirteen chapters, Global Coventry provides a wide-ranging analysis of the historical and social trajectories which brought communities from all over the world to the city and reveals how these communities organised. The contributions explore topics like the hidden histories of Coventry’s South Asian community, a pioneering 1970s community development project, the arrival of Chinese migrants to the city, local oral history archives, and the presence of queer refugees in the city.If you are interested in urban studies, histories of place-making and the cultural significance of diasporic groups in modern British history, Global Coventry is essential reading.