The writer teaches at the IT University in Lahore. He is the author of ‘A Princely Affair: The Accession and Integration of the Princely States of Pakistan, 1947-55.’ He tweets at @BangashYK.
At nearly 67 years, Pakistan is a relatively new country. However, its recent history has exhibited considerable structural, political, ethnic and...
Recently I have been reading the voluminous book on the All India Muslim League from its inception to 1947 by Professor Rafique Afzal. This is a...
Over the past few years, it has been increasingly apparent to me that Islam and Islamic culture developed very differently in India as compared to...
In December 1928, Abdul Ghaffar Khan, popularly known as Bacha Khan, went to Calcutta for the annual session of the Indian National Congress. At the...
Junagadh’s accession to Pakistan on September 15, 1947 was the first test of the Indian Independence Act of July 1947, which allowed the...
The exchange of populations which followed the transfer of power in August 1947 was one of the largest and bloodiest such migrations in recent...
State formation and consolidation has been the bane of most post-colonial states. As post-colonial states, based on the ‘nation-state’...
On January 1, 2014 the famed Government College Lahore celebrated its 150th foundation day. The founding of the college was in a number of ways...
I had always wanted to go to a Muharram procession. The sea of black, people wailing, crying, and chanting with passion, and simply the charged...
A couple of weeks ago, I went to India for a few conferences. The first conference was at Panjab University in Chandigarh, the second one at Punjabi...