History Taught In Pakistan

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For the study of the area of present-day Pakistan in the preindependence period, one must generally look to histories of India. The most recent survey is

Stanley Wolpert's A New History of India. Published earlier, <b>
Percival Spear's A History of India (volume 1) and </b>
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Romila Thapar's A History of India (volume 2)</b> provide valuable information. <b>
Vincent Arthur Smith's The Oxford History of India</b> gives a detailed account of the preindependence period.

Two dictionaries that are difficult to obtain are helpful in looking up specific places and people: <b>
Sachchidananda Bhattacharya's
A Dictionary of Indian History </b>and <b>
Parshotam Mehra's A Dictionary of Modern Indian History, 1707-1947. </b>

Particularly valuable is the monumental <b>
A Historical Atlas of South Asia, edited by Joseph E. Schwartzberg.
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Two classic works on the Mughal period are <b>
Bamber Gascoigne's The Great Moghuls and
Percival Spear's Twilight of the Mughals.
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A more recent, standard work on the Mughals is <b>
John F. Richards's The Mughal Empire.
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Books that bring the Muslim movement alive include<b>
Peter Hardy's The Muslims of British India;
Choudhry Khaliquzzaman's Pathway to Pakistan;
Chaudri Muhammad Ali's The Emergence of Pakistan;
Gail Minault's The Khilafat Movement;
David Lelyveld's Aligarh's First Generation; and
R.J. Moore's The Crisis of Indian Unity, 1917-1940.</b>

There is little biographic material except on Jinnah: the best are <b>
Stanley Wolpert's Jinnah of Pakistan and
Ayesha Jalal's The Sole Spokesman.</b>

Concerning independent Pakistan during the parliamentary period, <b>
Keith Callard's Pakistan: A Political Study and
Richard S. Wheeler's The Politics of Pakistan are recommended. </b>

On Ayub Khan,<b>
Lawrence Ziring's The Ayub Khan Era is good.</b> <b>
Bangladesh: A Country Study, edited by James Heitzman and
Robert L. Worden, </b>
provides an analysis of the history of the East Wing of Pakistan (1947-71).

The civil war is discussed in <b>
Craig Baxter's Bangladesh: A New Nation in an Old Setting. </b>

Bhutto's tenure is described in <b>
Shahid Javed Burki's Pakistan under Bhutto, 1971-1977 and
Stanley Wolpert's Zulfi Bhutto of Pakistan: His Life and Times. </b>

Zia ul-Haq's period is discussed in <b>
Shahid Javed Burki and Craig Baxter's Pakistan under the Military: Eleven Years of Zia ul-Haq. </b>