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.
The recent landslide victory of the Aam Aadmi Party in the Delhi state elections is representative of the change which has permeated India in the...
Cricket in Pakistan has mirrored changes in our society and continues to do so
A peek into history to know how the British government and the American administration prevented the emergence of several states in South Asia...
Next year, perhaps, we need to understand what exactly has caused all this chaos in Pakistan
Was Iqbal’s dream for the Muslims of India within a united India and in co-existence with other communities?
The ‘renaming’ wave in independent Pakistan shows no one remembers John Lawrence now, and it seems that no one cares to remember him either
Like conjoined but estranged twins, Pakistan and India have also been tied together by an eternal comparison between Muslims and Hindus
The referendum in UK should be a lesson for other countries facing secessionist movements in how such issues should be dealt with
Remembering renowned educationist Dr James Caruthers Rhea Ewing who won laurels for services in subcontinent
With the Punjab entering a new phase of modernisation during the first half of the nineteenth century, a new system of education was developed with...
Just a few days ago we observed the 175th death anniversary of Maharaja Ranjit Singh, the ‘Lion of the Punjab’ and one of the only...
A few days ago, I was researching on the development of modern education in the Punjab in the nineteenth century, and came across a rather...
The two-day conference titled ‘Pakistan: Creation and Consolidation’, organised by the Department of History, Forman Christian College,...
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’...
