The Indus Saga and the making of Pakistan - Aitzaz Ahsan (Karachi : Oxford University Press, 1996)
Part One: The Two Regions 2000 BC to AD 1800. 1. The Priests of Prehistory. 2. The man on Horseback. 3. Iron, Krishna, and Buddha Destroy the tribe. 4. Porus, An Indus Version. 5. Pax Mauryana: the First Universal State. 6. The Oxus and the Indus. 7. The Romance of Raja Rasalu. 8. Feudalization and the First Feudal State. 9. An Arab Visitor. 10. More Men on Horseback. 11. The Second Feudal State. 12. Turbulent North, Peaceful South and Panipat. 13. The Second Universal State. 14. Resistance, Opportunism, and Consumerism. 15. The Bhaktis, Nanak, and the Sufis. Part Two: The Two Worlds AD 1600 to 1857: 16. The European that came to India. 17. The India that Awaited Europe. 18. Uneasy Heads on the Peacock Thorne. 19. Tombs, Ostentation, and Land tenure. 20. Sea Power and Military Tactics. 21. The Sikhs and the Subsidiary States. 22. 1857. 23. The Third Universal State. Part Three: The two Nations AD 1757 to 1947. 24. The Character of the Hindu-Muslim Divide. 25. Sonar Bangla. 26. Plunder. 27. The Famine and Settlement. 28. The Economic Divide. 29. Whither the Muslims? 30. The Sons of Indus Fight. 31. Parting of the Ways. 32. Towards Jinnahj$1 (Bs Pakistan. The Indus Person. Notes and References, Bibliography, Index.s
The Indus Saaga and The Maing of Pakistan
In English
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Keywords: Pakistan --History