Ayesha Jalal
In a comparative and historical study of the interplay between democratic politics and authoritarian states in South Asia, Ayesha Jalal explains how a shared colonial legacy led to apparently contrasting patterns of political development - democracy in India and authoritarianism in Pakistan and Bang...
In a comparative and historical study of the interplay between democratic politics and authoritarian states in South Asia, Ayesha Jalal explains how a shared colonial legacy led to apparently contrasting patterns of political development - democracy in India and authoritarianism in Pakistan and Bang...
Established as a homeland for India s Muslims in 1947, Pakistan has had a tumultuous history that has unfolded in the vortex of dire regional and international conflicts. Beset by assassinations, coups, ethnic strife, and the breakaway of Bangladesh in 1971, the country has found itself too often co...
Sonia Cordera
AbstractBased on recently declassified materials from the Indian government archives and on the private papers of the principal secretary to the Indian prime minister, this article investigates how India formulated its response to the 1971 East Pakistan genocidal crisis that culminated with the thir...
Part 1: Introduction 1. Communalism and globalization: an opening gambit in a conversation between two literatures Chandana Mathur Part 2: Thinking historically 2. Beyond communalism: India, Pakistan and the challenges of globalization Ayesha Jalal 3. Salafi extremism in the Punjab and its transnati...
Ashis Nandy
Abstract Abstract This paper mainly discusses the transformation of the idea of South Asia in Post‐Cold War era. Keywords: South AsiaIndiaPakistan Notes 1. This note is an extract from an unpublished keynote address at the Seventh Sustainable Development Conference at Islamabad, organised by the Sus...
Kaushik Basu, Ravi Kanbur
Amartya Sen has made deep and lasting contributions to the academic disciplines of economics, philosophy, and the social sciences more broadly. He has engaged in policy dialogue and public debate, advancing the cause of a human development focused policy agenda, and a tolerant and democratic polity....
Kaushik Basu, Ravi Kanbur
Amartya Sen has made deep and lasting contributions to the academic disciplines of economics, philosophy, and the social sciences more broadly. He has engaged in policy dialogue and public debate, advancing the cause of a human development focused policy agenda, and a tolerant and democratic polity....
Papiya Ghosh
Pakistan, denominational homeland of 1940s, ceased to be a migrant option for Indian Muslim by late sixties, and more definitively after 1971. With making of Bangladesh, Muhajirs1 from Muslim-minority provinces of undivided India found themselves mapped out of eastern part of Pakistan to which they ...
Ayesha Siddika, A. K. M. Aminul Islam, M. G. Rasul, M. A. K. Mian et al.
Twenty five advanced lines among them twelve lines obtained from the cross between Edible Podded Pea and IPSA Motorsuty-1, nine obtained from the cross between Local White and IPSA Motorsuty-3 and five parental lines were included to measure genetic diversity. The field experiment was conducted at t...
Ayesha Jalal
More than seventy years after its cataclysmic enactment, the partition of India continues to loom large on the subcontinent's political horizon, scarring relations between, as well as within, the nation-states of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh. More than just an event, partition is an ongoing proces...
Markus Daechsel
There is a long tradition of telling Pakistan’s history as a tale of things going wrong. Once upon a time in the early 1960s, the country was the poster child of the Western-led global development effort. But ever since its eastern wing broke off in an exceptionally bloody conflict to become indepen...
Yunas Samad
The mass displacement created by the Partition of the Indian subcontinent in 1947 was phenomenal in its scale and impact. Around 20 million people were displaced by Partition, with Hindus and Sikhs migrating to India and Muslims migrating to Pakistan. Despite the scale of this refugee crisis, his...
Ayesha Jalal
The 1970s witnessed the crystallization of significant changes in the statesociety dialectic in South Asia. During the 1960s state interventions in the economy had contributed to important alterations in social structures and in the process broadened the arena of mass politics. In the absence of any...
Ayesha Jalal
Book Review| August 01 1988 Trends in Pakistan's External Policy, 1947–1971, with Particular Reference to People's China Trends in Pakistan's External Policy, 1947–1971, with Particular Reference to People's China. By Azizul Haque. Dhaka: Asiatic Society of Bangladesh, 1985. xviii, 284 pp. $12.00 (p...