Honour Unmasked: gender violence, law, and power in Pakistan.

• Shah, Nafisa
• Oxford U.P. (Pakistan)
• xxvi,291p photos. pap.
• 2023(17)
• Family violence -- Dispute resolution (law) -- Honor killings -- Pakistan Sindh The practice of karo kari allows family, especially fathers, brothers and sons, to take the lives of their daughters, sisters and mothers if they are accused of adultery. This volume examines the central position of karo kari in the social, political and juridical structures in Upper Sindh, Pakistan. Drawing connections between local contests over marriage and resources, Nafisa Shah unearths deep historical processes and power relations. In particular, she explores how the state justice system and informal mediations inform each other in state responses to karo kari, and how modern law is implicated in this seemingly ancient cultural practice.

4,899円

Sindh's Fight for Pakistan

• Khalid Shamsul Hasan
• Shamsul Hasan Foundation for Historical Studies Research
• xxiv,260p. illus.
• 1992
• India -- Pakistan -- Simdh -- Politics and government --1919-1947 -- All-India Muslim League -- History

2,654円

Dethroned: the downfall of India's princely states.

• Zubrzycki, John
• Hurst
• viii,337p.
• 2023
• India -- Kings and rulers -- Politics and government -- History --1919-1947 In July 1947, India's last Viceroy, Lord Louis Mountbatten, stood before New Delhi's Chamber of Princes to deliver the most important speech of his career. He had just three weeks to convince over 550 sovereign princely states--some tiny, some the size of Britain--to become part of a free India. Once Britain's most faithful allies, the princes could choose between joining India or Pakistan, or declaring independence. This is a saga of intrigue, brinkmanship and broken promises, wrought by Mountbatten and two of independent India's founding fathers: the country's most senior civil servant, V.P. Menon, and Congress strongman Vallabhbhai Patel. What India's architects described as a "bloodless revolution" was anything but, as violence engulfed Kashmir and Indian troops crushed Hyderabad's dreams of independence. Most princes accepted the inevitable, exchanging their power for guarantees of privileges and titles in perpetuity. But these dynasties were still led to extinction--not by the sword, but by political expediency--leaving them with little more than fading memories of a glorified past.

5,974円

Islam, Globalization and Postmodernity.

• Ahmed, Akbar & Hastings Donnan (ed.)
• Royal Book Co./Routledge
• xiv,242p.
• 1995(94)
• Islam -- Globalization -- Islam and politics -- 1800-

1,650円

Historical background to Muslim question in India 1764-1945

• Ashraf, Kunwar Muhammad, 1903-1962
• Mainframe Publishers/ Asha Jyoti Book Sellers
• 2 vols.
• 2008
• Muslims -- Political activity -- India -- History -- 1765-1947 v. 1. 1764-1925 -- v. 2. 1926-1945

8,979円

Saints and Singers: Sufi music in the Indus Valley.

• Pannke, Peter
• Oxford U.P.
• xvi,152p photos. 2 CDs
• 2012
• Sufi music -- Pakistan -- Sindh -- History and criticism Sindh--the southernmost province of Pakistan--has a distinctive character of its own, setting it apart from other areas of the Islamic world. Nowhere else has Sufism gained such a stronghold. (with 2 CDs)

11,088円

The State, Religion, and Ethnic Politics : Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan

• Banuazizi, Ali & Myron Weiner (ed.)
• Syracuse U.P.
• xi,390p.
• 1986
• Islam and state -- Iran --Afghanistan -- Pakistan -- Ethnic relations

2,614円

The North-West Frontier (Khyber Pukhtunkhwa): essays on history. 2nd revised edition

• Sultan-i-Rome
• Oxford U.P.(Pakistan)
• xvi, 491p pap.
• 2022(13)
• Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Pakistan) -- Politics and government -- History The book covers a variety of topics about the Frontier (Khyber Pukhtunkhwa) and its people. It outlines the geography of the province and describes the three major theories about the origin of the Pukhtuns and recounts the Pukhtun code of life-Pukhtu.

5,390円

Annexation and the Unhappy Valley: the historical anthropology of Sindh's colonization.

• Cook, Matthew A.
• Oxford U.P.(Pakistan)
• xii,297p. illus.
• 2021(15)
• Asia Indus River Valley -- British colonies -- Ethnohistory -- 1800-1899 Annexation and the Unhappy Valley : The Historical Anthropology of Sindh's Colonization addresses the nineteenth century expansion and consolidation of British colonial power in the Sindh region of South Asia. It adopts an interdisciplinary approach and employs a fine-grained, nuanced and situated reading of multiple agents and their actions. It explores how the political and administrative incorporation of territory (i.e. annexation) by East India Company informs the conversion of intra-cultural distinctions into socio-historical conflicts among the colonized and colonizers. The book focuses on colonial direct rule, rather than the more commonly studied indirect rule, of South Asia. It socio-culturally explores how agents, perspectives and intentions vary--both within and across regions--to impact the actions and structures of colonial governance.

4,901円

'We are Lovers of the Qalandar': piety, pilgrimage, and ritual in Pakistani Sufi Islam.

• Frembgen, Jürgen Wasim
• Oxford U.P.(Pakistan)
• xix,170p. illus.
• 2021
• Sufism -- Rituals -- Pakistan This book is about Pakistan's most popular Sufi saint Lal Shahbaz Qalandar whose shrine in Sehwan Sharif is one of the most fascinating sancturies in the Muslim world. The present ethnographic study is organized around three themes: piety, pilgrimage, and ritual. Thus, its focus is first on visual culture and 'material religion' as well as various aspects of religious aesthetics which highlight how sacred spaces are constructed and shaped. Secondly, it deals with the year-round pilgrimage, mainly investigating pilgrims from Punjab (including a unique life history of a female 'Sufi lineage' from Lahore), but also discussing remarkable ritual agents in the cult. The third theme is the spectacular trance dance known as dhamāl. On February 16, 2017, a suicide bomber executed a horrible massacre among the dancing devotees. This work, which is the fruit of the author's field-research between 2003 and 2015 in Sindh and Punjab, aims to contribute to a 'Sufism observed' which often seems to be neglected in mainly text-based Sufi studies.