The Oxford companion to Pakistani history / edited by Ayesha Jalal.

"Insofar as history is constantly in the process of being reconfigured in the light of new processes and challenges, any Companion to the history of Pakistan cannot but be an ongoing, not obviously an open-ended enterprise. The historiography of Pakistan has been missing such a comprehensive survey...

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Other Authors: Jalal, Ayesha
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2012.
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Physical Description:xv, 556 pages ; 25 cm
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Pakistani history.
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