Life After Partition - Book Review
LIFE AFTER PARTITION: Migration, Community and Strife in Sindh 1947-1962 Sarah Ansari
By the 1990s, ethnic politics had come to dominate Sindh, with calls for Karachi to become a fifth province in its own right. Life after Partition examines the historical background to these developments by focusing on events in the province in the years immediately following partition, when migrants from India and local people in Sindh found themselves living alongside each other in the newly created state of Pakistan. How far they retained distinctive notions of community and identity, and what its impact was on processes of accommodation and integration forms the main focus of this study of life in Sindh between 1947 and 1962.
Dr. Sarah Ansari, former British Academy Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, teaches history at Royal Holloway, University of London. Dr Ansari has published extensively on the history of nineteenth and twentieth century Sindh, as well as on issues relating to Muslims in South Asia and in other parts of the world. She is also a member of the Council of the Royal Asiatic Society, and is the editor of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. At present, she is carrying out research on the social history of Pakistan during the 1950s and 1960s, and is beginning work on a monograph dealing with the history of women in Muslim societies since 1800.
240 pages, Hardback
Price: Rs 395
Karachi Oxford Bookshops:
Park Towers, Sharae Firdousi, Clifton . Tel.: 5875355
By the 1990s, ethnic politics had come to dominate Sindh, with calls for Karachi to become a fifth province in its own right. Life after Partition examines the historical background to these developments by focusing on events in the province in the years immediately following partition, when migrants from India and local people in Sindh found themselves living alongside each other in the newly created state of Pakistan. How far they retained distinctive notions of community and identity, and what its impact was on processes of accommodation and integration forms the main focus of this study of life in Sindh between 1947 and 1962.
Dr. Sarah Ansari, former British Academy Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, teaches history at Royal Holloway, University of London. Dr Ansari has published extensively on the history of nineteenth and twentieth century Sindh, as well as on issues relating to Muslims in South Asia and in other parts of the world. She is also a member of the Council of the Royal Asiatic Society, and is the editor of the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society. At present, she is carrying out research on the social history of Pakistan during the 1950s and 1960s, and is beginning work on a monograph dealing with the history of women in Muslim societies since 1800.
240 pages, Hardback
Price: Rs 395
Karachi Oxford Bookshops:
Park Towers, Sharae Firdousi, Clifton . Tel.: 5875355
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