Pakistan: A Very Short Introduction Virdee Pippa
Pakistan: A Very Short Introduction Virdee Pippa What is Pakistan? But the region of the Indus Valley has a four-thousand-year-old history, and was the site of one of the earliest and greatest…
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Pakistan: A Very Short Introduction Virdee Pippa
What is Pakistan? But the region of the Indus Valley has a four-thousand-year-old history, and was the site of one of the earliest and greatest riverine civilisations in the world. The name refers to a seventy-year-old post-colonial product of the bloodiest partition of territory and population that accompanied the end of British empire in South Asia.
Pippa Virdee reaches into the ancient past to demonstrate the influence of trajectories of human settlement and civilisation on Although the modern nation of Pakistan as we know it was created as a homeland for the Muslims of British India, it is impossible to understand the complex tapestry of linguistic, ethnic, and cultural identities and tensions of the region without tracing its deep past.This Very Short Introduction looks at Pakistan as one of the two nation-states of the Indian sub-continent that emerged in 1947.