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Author: M. Mansoor Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781500845001 Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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This book is an adaptation from the field work and dissertation conducted in late 1980s in a Punjabi village in Pakistan. With special attention to the communal rites and rituals, this book studies the life and culture of the village where society has undergone a sea of change in recent years. The old culture, characterized by the distinct rules, rites, rituals, and ceremonies continues to be fading fast, being replaced by a mass culture enabled by media and other agents of change. The focus of the book is not the new culture; it is the old one that has been there for thousands of years and continues to thrive to a certain extent in many parts of Punjab. Based on one of the first scientific fieldwork-based Anthropological studies conducted in that part of Punjab, this book presents a fascinating snapshot of life and culture of a typical Pakistani Punjabi village.
Author: Zekiye Eglar Publisher: ISBN: 9780231877190 Category : SOCIAL SCIENCE Languages : en Pages : 240
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An observational study of Pakistani society, offering a holistic and humanistic view of village life, particularly the women. Provides and in-depth perspective into the social and economic patterns of a village, prior to the Green Revolution of 1958, which changed agricultural practices and land ownership.
Author: Muhammad Azam Chaudhary Publisher: ISBN: Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 268
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This book is a study of the traditional Pakistani Justice system and its official functioning. The author uses first-hand information from several case studies to highlight the types of conflicts and reasons that have led to the various problems within Pakistan's legal system while also suggesting propositions to solve these issues.
Author: Imran Ali Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 1400859581 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 277
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The Punjab--an area now divided between Pakistan and India--experienced significant economic growth under British rule from the second half of the nineteenth century. This expansion was founded on the construction of an extensive network of canals in the western parts of the province. The ensuing agricultural settlement transformed the previously barren area into one of the most important regions of commercial agriculture in South Asia. Nevertheless, Imran Ali argues that colonial strategy distorted the development of what came to be called the "bread basket" of the Indian subcontinent. This comprehensive survey of British rule in the Punjab demonstrates that colonial policy making led to many of the socio-economic and political problems currently plaguing Pakistan and Indian Punjab. Subordinating developmental goals to its political and military imperatives, the colonial state cooperated with the dominant social classes, the members of which became the major beneficiaries of agricultural colonization. Even while the rulers tried to use the vast resources of the Punjab to advance imperial purposes, they were themselves being used by their collaborators to advance implacable private interests. Such processes effectively retarded both nationalism and social change and resulted in the continued backwardness of the region even after the departure of the British. Originally published in 1988. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author: Anatol Lieven Publisher: PublicAffairs ISBN: 1610391624 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 594
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In the past decade Pakistan has become a country of immense importance to its region, the United States, and the world. With almost 200 million people, a 500,000-man army, nuclear weapons, and a large diaspora in Britain and North America, Pakistan is central to the hopes of jihadis and the fears of their enemies. Yet the greatest short-term threat to Pakistan is not Islamist insurgency as such, but the actions of the United States, and the greatest long-term threat is ecological change. Anatol Lieven's book is a magisterial investigation of this highly complex and often poorly understood country: its regions, ethnicities, competing religious traditions, varied social landscapes, deep political tensions, and historical patterns of violence; but also its surprising underlying stability, rooted in kinship, patronage, and the power of entrenched local elites. Engagingly written, combining history and profound analysis with reportage from Lieven's extensive travels as a journalist and academic, Pakistan: A Hard Country is both utterly compelling and deeply revealing.
Author: Osman Haneef Publisher: Readomania ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 288
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A Christian boy in Pakistan is accused of blasphemy―a crime punishable by death. Haunted by a tragic past, a young lawyer named Sikander Ghaznavi returns to Pakistan after many years abroad, and takes on the defence of the boy. He reaches out to the sharpest human rights lawyer he knows―the woman he has loved for years, but now another man’s wife. As they deal with their unresolved feelings, the lawyers confront a corrupt system, a town turned against them, and a prophecy that predicts their death. Will they save the boy? Or will the city of Quetta, its prejudice inflamed by religious extremists, consume them and deliver them to a deadly fate?
Author: Zekiye Suleyman Eglar
Author: Zekiye Suleyman Eglar
Author: M. Mansoor
Author: Zekiye Eglar
Author: Zekiye Eglar
Author: Muhammad Azam Chaudhary
Author: Saghir Ahmad
Author: Imran Ali
Author: Arif Hasan
Author: Anatol Lieven
Author: Osman Haneef