Pakistan Audiobook Libro.fm

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What is Pakistan The name refers to a seventyyearold postcolonial 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 fourthousandyearold 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 nationstates 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 Pakistans contemporary political arena and shows how the longer continuities between the land and its peoples are as important as the shortterm changes in the political landscape She considers Pakistans religion and society the state and the military everyday life popular culture languages and literature as well as Pakistans relationship with the rest of the world Virdee also looks to the challenges of the twentyfirst century and the future of Pakistan