Bibliography of Pakistan


This is a list of notable books and works in the English language written about Pakistan.

History

  • B. R. Ambedkar. Pakistan or the Partition of India. Bombay: Thackers Publishers.
  • K K Aziz, The Murder of History in Pakistan: A critique of history textbooks used in Pakistan, Vanguard Books Pvt Ltd, Lahore, 1993.
  • Seshadri, H. V.. The tragic story of partition. Bangalore : Sahitya Sindhu Prakashana, 2013.
  • Rosser, Yvette. Islamization of Pakistani Social Studies Textbooks, RUPA, New Delhi, 2003.
  • Masood Ashraf Raja. Constructing Pakistan: Foundational Texts and the Rise of Muslim National Identity, 1857–1947, Oxford 2010,
  • Nayyar, A. H. & Salim, Ahmad. The Subtle Subversion: The State of Curricula and Text-books in Pakistan - Urdu, English, Social Studies and Civics. Sustainable Development Policy Institute.
  • Mubarak Ali. In the Shadow of history, Nigarshat, Lahore; History on Trial, Fiction House, Lahore, 1999; Tareekh Aur Nisabi Kutub, Fiction House, Lahore, 2003.
  • Purifying the Land of the Pure: Pakistan's Religious Minorities by Farahnaz Ispahani, Publisher: HarperCollins India
  • Dastidar, S. G.. Empire's last casualty: Indian subcontinent's vanishing Hindu and other minorities. Kolkata: Firma KLM.
  • Kamra, A. J.. The prolonged partition and its pogroms: Testimonies on violence against Hindus in East Bengal 1946-64.
  • Spear, Percival, India, Pakistan and the West. Read books publishers,
  • Wolpert, Stanley. Jinnah of Pakistan. Oxford University Press, USA. May 1984.
  • Yasmeen Niaz Mohiuddin, Pakistan: a global studies handbook. ABC-CLIO publishers, 2006,

    Politics, foreign relations and military

  • Ayres, Robert, Turning Point: The End of the Growth Paradigm. James & James publishers,
  • Fair, C. Christine,
  • Ian, Talbot. The Armed Forces of Pakistan. Macmillan publishers,
  • Rubinstein, W. D.. Genocide: a history. Pearson Longman Publishers,
  • Pervez Hoodbhoy and A. H. Nayyar. "Rewriting the history of Pakistan", in Islam, Politics and the state: The Pakistan Experience, Ed. Mohammad Asghar Khan, Zed Books, London, 1985
  • Ḥaqqānī, H.. Pakistan: Between mosque and military. Gurgaon, Haryana : Viking, 2016
  • Haqqani, H.. Magnificent delusions: Pakistan, the United States, and an epic history of misunderstanding. New York : PublicAffairs
  • Ḥaqqānī, H.. India vs Pakistan: Why can't we just be friends?. New Delhi, India : Juggernaut, 2016.
  • Lieven, A.. Pakistan: A hard country. London: Penguin
  • Tariq Rahman, Denizens of Alien Worlds: A Study of Education, Inequality and Polarization in Pakistan Karachi, Oxford University Press, 2004. Reprint. 2006
  • Tariq Rahman, Language, Ideology and Power: Language learning among the Muslims of Pakistan and North India Karachi, Oxford UP, 2002
  • Tariq Rahman, Language and Politics in Pakistan Karachi: Oxford UP, 1996. Rept. several times. see 2006 edition.

    Religion, culture and arts

  • Zaman, Muhammad Qasim, Islam in Pakistan: A History
  • Wink, Andre, Al-Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World, Brill Academic Publishers, 1 January 1996,
  • Masood Ashraf Raja. Constructing Pakistan: Foundational Texts and the Rise of Muslim National Identity, 1857–1947, Oxford 2010,
  • Seyyed Vali Reza Nasr, ''The Vanguard of the Islamic Revolution: The Jama`at-i Islami of Pakistan''

    Society and people

  • For Hire, Experiences by a taxi driver, Ferozsons Publishers
  • Fabry Ph., Wandering with the Indus, Yusuf Shahid Lahore, Ferozsons, 152 p., ISBN 969-0-10224-9
  • Naipaul, V. S.. Among the Believers: An Islamic Journey
  • Seth, P. N.. Lahore to Delhi: Rising from the ashes : autobiography of a refugee from Pakistan Bangalore: Punya Pub.