Pippa Virdee - 2022 - Pakistan - A Very Short Introduction (History)

Pakistan: A Very Short Introduction - Pippa Virdee - 2022







By: Pippa Virdee

Narrated by: Shakira Shute

Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins

Unabridged Audiobook

Release date: 03-29-22

Categories: History, Asia

Language: English

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Format: mp3 64/48 mono







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 civilizations 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 subcontinent that emerged in 1947. Pippa Virdee reaches into the ancient past to demonstrate the influence of trajectories of human settlement and civilization 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 twenty-first century and the future of Pakistan.



Table of Contents:



01. Progress of a dream

02: The ancient in the modern

03: Towards the idea of Pakistan

04: Consolidation and fragmentation

05: Building the land of the pure

06: Visualising the land of the pure

07: The world outside

08: Looking backwards, going forward?

09: Timeline and key moments



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