{"product_id":"indus-saga-from-pataliputra-to-partition-idf387","title":"The Indus Saga: From Pataliputra to Partition","description":"\u003ch2 class=\"title is-size-3-desktop is-size-5-touch has-text-centered product-details-description-title\"\u003eBook Specification\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ctable\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eItem Code:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003eIDF387\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/ar\/book-author\/aitzaz%20ahsan\" class=\"underlined\" title=\"Aitzaz Ahsan\"\u003eAitzaz Ahsan\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/ar\/book-publisher\/roli%20books\" class=\"underlined\" title=\"Roli Books\"\u003eRoli Books\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003eEnglish\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eEdition:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e2005\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eISBN:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e8174364218\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003ePages:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003e487 (Maps: 2)\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eCover:\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd\u003eHardcover\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eOther Details\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd rel=\"product-dimensions\"\u003e9.0\" X 6.0\"\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003ctr\u003e \u003ctd class=\"product-details-specifications-label has-text-grey-dark\"\u003eWeight\u003c\/td\u003e \u003ctd rel=\"product-weight\"\u003e770 gm\u003c\/td\u003e \u003c\/tr\u003e \u003c\/table\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch2 class=\"title is-size-3-desktop is-size-5-touch has-text-centered product-details-description-title\"\u003eBook Description\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"product-details-description\" style=\"max-height: 63rem; overflow-y: auto;\"\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eFrom the Jacket:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 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'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eAbout the Author:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e Aitzaz Ahsan comes from a background steeped in politics, being the third generation from his family to serve as an elected member of a legislative assembly. He is a member of the Pakistan Peoples Party and has served as the minister of law, justice, interior and education in the federal government between 1988 and 1993. elected to the senate of Pakistan in 1994, he was, successively, the leader of the House and the leader of the Opposition between the years 1996 and 1999.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e After his early education at Aitchison College and the Government College in Lahore, he studied law at Cambridge and was called to the bar at Grays' Inn in 1967. he is a senior advocate in the Supreme Court of Pakistan. He is also an indefatigable human rights activist and a founder vice-president of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. He has been incarcerated under arbitrary detention laws many times by military and authoritarian regimes. During one such prolonged detention, he wrote the Indus Saga.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eFrom the Back of the Book:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e '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 \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e 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'\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ccenter\u003e\u003cb\u003eCONTENTS\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/center\u003e \u003ctable width=\"100%\" cellspacing=\"7\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd width=\"3%\"\u003e \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e Acknowledgements\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e ix\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e Preface\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e xi\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart One: The Two Regions 2000 BC to AD 1800\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e Introduction\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 5\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 1. \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e The Priests of Prehistory\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 35\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 2. \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e The Man on Horseback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 42\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 3. \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e Iron, \u003ca href=\"\/ar\/article\/lord-krishna\"\u003eKrishna\u003c\/a\u003e and Buddha Destroy the Tribe\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 51\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 4. \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e Porus: An Indus Version\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 66\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 5. \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e Pax Mauryana: The First Universal State\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 74\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 6. \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e The Oxus and the Indus\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 84\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 7. \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e The Romance of Raja Rasalu\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 100\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 8. \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e Feudalization and the First Feudal State\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 107\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 9. \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e An Arab Visitor\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 113\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 10. \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e More Man on Horseback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 122\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 11. \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e The Second Feudal State\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 132\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 12. \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e Turbulent North, Peaceful South and Panipat\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 141\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 13. \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e The Second Universal State\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 149\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 14. \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e Resistance, Opportunism and Consumerism\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 162\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 15. \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e \u003ca href=\"\/ar\/article\/bhakti_sutras\"\u003eBhakti\u003c\/a\u003e, Nanak and the Sufis\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 179\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart Two: The Two Worlds AD 1600 to AD 1897\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e Introduction\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 195\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 16. \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e The Europe that Came to India\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 198\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 17. \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e The India that Awaited Europe\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 212\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 18. \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e Uneasy Heads on the Peacock Throne\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 226\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 19. \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e Tombs, Ostentation and Land Tenure\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 243\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 20. \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e Sea Power and Military Tactics\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 255\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 21. \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e The Sikhs and the Subsidiary States\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 272\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 22. \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 1857\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 291\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 23. \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e The Third Universal State\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 307\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e \u003cb\u003ePart Three: the Two Nations AD 1757 to AD 1947\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e Introduction\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 323\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 24. \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e The Character of the Hindu Muslim Divide\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 327\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 25. \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e Sonar Bangla\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 342\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 26. \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e The Plunder\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 349\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 27. \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e The Famine and Settlement\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 355\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 28. \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e The Economic Divide\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 366\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 29. \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e Whither the Muslims? \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 382\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 30. \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e The Sons of the Indus Fight\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 395\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 31. \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e Parting of the Ways\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e 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