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If you have any difficulty in obtaining your requirement, please contact us. www.oup.com.pk iii Swat Through the Millennia Sultan-i-Rome The Betrayal of East Pakistan Lt. Gen. A.A.K. Niazi Annexation and the Unhappy Matthew A. Cook Valley `We are Lovers of the Qalandar’ Jürgen Wasim Frembgen Principles of Administrative Law Hamid Khan A Leadership Odyssey Sikandar Hayat The Punjab under Imperialism Imran Ali 1885 -1947 Zulfi Bhutto of Pakistan Stanley Wolpert Agents of Change Amjad Noorani and Nadeem Hussain The Islamic Law of Inheritance Hamid Khan Cover Point Jamsheed Marker iv Swat Through the Millennia From Prehistory to the Early Twentieth Century Sultan-i-Rome Beginning with details of its nomenclature and geography, the book continues with covering and thoroughly examining and discussing the prehistory and protohistoric periods of Swat, different aspects of Alexander of Macedonia’s invasion, the period from the Mauryas to the Hindu Shahis, religious perspective of Swat, Muslims’ occupation and pre-Yusufzi’s period, the Yusufzi’s occupation, their social system and mode of ruling, the Mughals and Swat, Khushal Khan Khattak and 2021 344 pages Swat, the period from 1707 till 1915 CE, and the Kuhistan. There Paperback is very little about Swat, from the said perspectives, that cannot 978-0-19-070422-3 be learned from reading this book. The book is comprehensive, 234x156 mm and systematic. Written in an analytical but simple style, and Rs 850 presented methodologically, it is rich in factual information. It is heavily based on primary source material; but the respected secondary sources are also utilized. Sultan-i-Rome is a life member of the Pakistan Historical Society and a sitting member of its Executive Committee. He is the author of more than fifty research articles in academic journals, books, anthologies, and proceedings, and two working papers. The Betrayal of East Pakistan Lt. Gen. A.A.K. Niazi Lt. Gen. A.A.K. Niazi of the Eastern Command was the man whose fate it was to direct the operation which resulted in the dismemberment of Pakistan. Many books have been written about that unforgettable year in Pakistan’s history, 1971, and the terrible events that it spawned. But finally one of the main actors of the drama has volunteered his own account of the events leading to the disaster. This book fills a huge gap in the recorded history of the period, which could hardly be considered complete or authentic without the contribution of such a major protagonist. 2021 356 pages Lt. Gen. A. A. K. Niazi (1915–2004) remains one of the most Paperback decorated soldiers of the Pakistan Army. He was Commandant, 978-0-19-579275-1 School of Infantry and Tactics, Quetta, and taught at Command 216x138 mm and Staff College, Quetta. Rs 895 1 Annexation and the Unhappy Valley The Historical Anthropology of Sindh’s Colonization Matthew A. Cook This book addresses the nineteenth century expansion and consolidation of British colonial power in the Sindh region of South Asia. It adopts an interdisciplinary approach and employs a fine-grained, nuanced, and situated reading of multiple agents and their actions. It explores how the political and administrative incorporation of territory (i.e., annexation) by East India Company informs the conversion of intra-cultural distinctions into socio-historical conflicts amongst the 2021 colonized and colonizers. The book focuses on colonial direct 312 pages Paperback rule, rather than the more commonly studied indirect rule, of 978-0-19-070432-2 South Asia. 216x138 mm Rs 995 Dr Matthew A. Cook is Professor of South Asian and Postcolonial Studies at North Carolina Central University, USA. `We are Lovers of the Qalandar’ Piety, Pilgrimage, and Ritual in Pakistani Sufi Islam Jürgen Wasim Frembgen This book is about Pakistan’s most popular Sufi Saint, Lal Shahbaz Qalandar, whose shrine in Sehwan Sharif is one of the most fascinating sanctuaries in the Muslim world. The present ethnographic study is organized around three themes: piety, pilgrimage, and ritual. Thus, its focus is first on visual culture and ‘material religion’ as well as various aspects of religious aesthetics which highlight how sacred spaces are constructed and shaped. Secondly, it deals with the year-round pilgrimage 2021 and the remarkable ritual agents in the cult. The third theme is 192 pages the spectacular trance dance known as dhamal. Paperback 978-969-7340-15-6 Jürgen Wasim Frembgen is an Adjunct Professor at the Institute 216x138 mm of Near and Middle Eastern Studies, Ludwig-Maximilians- Rs 875 University Munich, Germany. 2 Principles of Administrative Law A Comparative Study SECOND EDITION Hamid Khan This book is a comparative study of the principles of administrative law as developed by the superior courts in Pakistan, India, Britain, and the US. It elaborates the essential principles and concepts of administrative law including action, discretion, adjudication, delegated legislation, tribunals, the ombudsman, and judicial review of administrative action and discretion. 2020 496 pages Hamid Khan is a senior advocate of the Supreme Court of Pakistan Paperback and one of the founding partners of Cornelius, Lane & Mufti, a 978-0-19-070394-3 216x138 mm leading law firm in Pakistan. Rs 695 A Leadership Odyssey Muslim Separatism and the Achievement of the Separate State of Pakistan Sikandar Hayat This book offers a unique historiography of the phenomenon of Muslim separatism as it affected and shaped modern South Asia. It describes the journeys of six prominent Muslim leaders of British India: Syed Ahmad Khan, who laid the foundation of the Muslim separatist political movement; Sultan Muhammad Aga Khan III, Syed Ameer Ali, and Maulana Mohamed Ali, who strengthened and developed it in their own ways; Allama Muhammad Iqbal, who took its cause further and formulated the 2021 340 pages idea of a separate state; and, of course, Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Paperback Ali Jinnah, who, after making the demand for a separate state, 978-969-7340-13-2 transformed it into the nationalist Pakistan Movement and led it 216x138 mm successfully to achieve the separate state of Pakistan. Rs 995 Sikandar Hayat is Distinguished Professor of History and Public Policy and Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, FC College University, Lahore. He has also served as Dean, National Institute of Public Policy at the National School of Public Policy, Lahore. Hayat’s recent publications include the Award-winning book, The Charismatic Leader: Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah and the Creation of Pakistan (OUP 2008, 2014) and Aspects of the Pakistan Movement (NIHCR 2016). 3 The Punjab under Imperialism 1885 -1947 Imran Ali This comprehensive survey of British rule in the Punjab demonstrates that colonial policy-making led to many of the socio-economic and political problems currently plaguing Pakistan and Indian Punjab. Subordinating development goals to its political and military imperatives, the colonial state co- operated with the dominant social classes, the members of which became the major beneficiaries of agricultural colonization. Even while the rulers tried to use the vast resources of the Punjab to advance imperial purposes, they were themselves being used by 2021 their collaborators to advance implacable private interests. Such 276 pages processes effectively retarded both nationalism and social Paperback 978-0-19-579924-8 change and resulted in the continued backwardness of the 216x138 mm region even after the departure of the British. Rs 595 Professor Imran Ali has obtained his Honours degree from the University of Sussex, and Doctorate from the Australian National University. Zulfi Bhutto of Pakistan His Life and Times Stanley Wolpert Bhutto was a charismatic and contradictory man. He climbed the heights of power with amazing swiftness, winning a seat in the central Cabinet of Pakistan at the unprecedented age of thirty. Wolpert weaves Pakistan’s turbulent politics and repeated wars with India together with Bhutto’s ambitious manoeuvring, tracing his rise as Foreign Minister, to the founding of his own political party, the PPP, and finally, leadership of the nation. The story of Bhutto’s sometimes 2021 inspiring and sometimes quixotic career is a fascinating one and 432 pages Wolpert tells it brilliantly through Bhutto’s triumphant years in Paperback the mid-1970s, the military coup in 1977, and his treacherous 978-0-19-070427-8 imprisonment and execution in 1979. 216x138 mm Rs 750 Stanley Wolpert (1927–2019) was Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India; Gandhi’s Passion: The Life and Legacy of Mahatma Gandhi; Nehru: A Tryst with Destiny; Jinnah of Pakistan; and A New History of India. 4 Agents of Change The Problematic Landscape of Pakistan’s K-12 Education and the People Leading the Change Amjad Noorani and Nadeem Hussain Agents of Change is a compilation of thought-provoking insights, opinions, personal stories, and suggested actions for change in the K-12 education system in Pakistan.It validates how good schooling can alleviate poverty and advance societal development through equitable opportunity for quality education.