The Pashtuns A Contested History In Urdu
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The Pashtuns
The Pashtuns are perhaps the largest ethnic group in the world without a country of their own. They inhabit a continuous stretch of land from the Hindu Kush to the Indus, across Pakistan and Afghanistan. Pakistan used the Pashtun-dominated areas in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) as a launching pad against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s and later during the US-led War on Terror. In the process FATA was kept in a constitutional and informational black hole. The discontent finally burst in 2018 when the extra-judicial killing of a Pashtun youth led to widespread protests. This book by veteran analyst Tilak Devasher fulfils a gap in the geopolitical understanding of South Asia, given the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and the shifting power equations in the region.
Contested Histories in Contemporary Travel Writing on India
Author: Antara Datta
language: en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date: 2025-02-03
This book is a study of contemporary travel writing as a contested field of political and historical articulations. It poses the question of the relevance of the travel form in a world that is both flagrantly unequal and extensively mapped. The book demonstrates how contemporary travel writing negotiates with the changing conditions of travel, and identifies history as an important trope and theme in this negotiation. The work critically examines the writings of acclaimed travel writers like VS Naipaul, William Dalrymple, Amitav Ghosh, Sudeep Chakravarti, and Alice Albinia. Each of these writers is chosen for their distinct historical perspectives and political stances on Indian and South Asian politics. Moreover, it meticulously examines how these authors interpret and engage with the socio-political realities of post-independence India through the optics of travel. The book offers a comprehensive exploration of how ethical interests, historical orientations, and critical political insights converge to shape contemporary travel writing. By illuminating the complex interplay of travel, politics, and history, the book sheds light on the dynamics of representation and narrative construction within the travel genre.
Afghanistan's Islam
"This book provides the first ever overview of the history and development of Islam in Afghanistan. It covers every era from the conversion of Afghanistan through the medieval and early modern periods to the present day. Based on primary sources in Arabic, Persian, Pashto, Urdu and Uzbek, its depth and scope of coverage is unrivalled by any existing publication on Afghanistan. As well as state-sponsored religion, the chapters cover such issues as the rise of Sufism, Sharia, women's religiosity, transnational Islamism and the Taliban. Islam has been one of the most influential social and political forces in Afghan history. Providing idioms and organizations for both anti-state and anti-foreign mobilization, Islam has proven to be a vital socio-political resource in modern Afghanistan. Even as it has been deployed as the national cement of a multi-ethnic 'Emirate' and then 'Islamic Republic,' Islam has been no less a destabilizing force in dividing Afghan society. Yet despite the universal scholarly recognition of the centrality of Islam to Afghan history, its developmental trajectories have received relatively little sustained attention outside monographs and essays devoted to particular moments or movements. To help develop a more comprehensive, comparative and developmental picture of Afghanistan's Islam from the eighth century to the present, this edited volume brings together specialists on different periods, regions and languages. Each chapter forms a case study 'snapshot' of the Islamic beliefs, practices, institutions and authorities of a particular time and place in Afghanistan"--Provided by publishe