Indus Saga: from Pataliputra to Partition (Record no. 221388)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 8174364218
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Transcribing agency AL
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title English
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Edition number 23
Classification number 954.91
Item number AHSI
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Aitzaz Ahsan
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
9 (RLIN) 15236
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Indus Saga: from Pataliputra to Partition
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New Delhi
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. Roli Books
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2005
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xx,467 p.
Other physical details HB
Dimensions 22x14.5 cm.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. Two generations of Pakistanis have been told that their very identity was their “un-Indianness”: banish this thought from the mind and Pakistan will collapse. Moreover, the Pakistani is Muslim and the Indian is Hindu. Period. That alone was the rationale of the partition of the subcontinent. But even if valid, being “un-Indian” is a manifestly incomplete answer to any question about identity. It only purports to state what the Pakistani is not. It does not address the issue as to what indeed he is… The Pakistani does not necessarily have to be an Indian, but he has to be somebody. Who is that somebody? Moreover the smug answer ascribing a singular role in the Partition to the differences between Hindus and Muslims fails to deal with the fact that the number of Muslims in India is greater than the population of Pakistan ...<br/>That is why some questions remain: is the centripetal pull of India an inexorable force that could again pull the Indus region (Pakistan) to itself? Or does the Indus region have a primordial existence outside India? Does it not have an identity of its own?’<br/>The Indus region, comprising the northwestern part of the Indian subcontinent (now Pakistan), has always had its distinct identity—racially, ethnically, linguistically and culturally. In the last five thousand years this region has been a part of India politically for only five hundred years.<br/>Pakistan, then, is no ‘artificial’ state conjured up by the disaffected Muslim elite of British India. Aitzaz Ahsan surveys the history of Indus—as he refers to this region—right from the time of the Harappan civilization to the era of the British Raj, concluding with Independence and the creation of Pakistan.<br/>Ahsan’s message is aimed both at Indians still nostalgic about ‘undivided’ India and at his Pakistani compatriots who narrowly tend to define their identity by their ‘un-Indianness’.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Indus Civilization
9 (RLIN) 15237
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element India Pakistan History
9 (RLIN) 15238
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name AHSAN (Aitzaz)
9 (RLIN) 15239
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     History St Aloysius Library St Aloysius Library 03/23/2013   954.91 AHSI GF03052 01/31/2022 01/31/2022 George Fernandes Collections