{"product_id":"16712-the-indus-saga-from-pataliputra-to-partition","title":"The Indus Saga - From Pataliputra to Partition","description":"\u003cb\u003e Shipping Note: This item usually arrives at your doorstep in 10-15 days\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAuthor: Aitzaz Ahsan\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Roli Books\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2005\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003ePages: 487\u003cbr\u003eISBN\/UPC (if available): 8174364218\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e Description\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePakistan, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAhsan’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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTwo 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat 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?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eREVIEW\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is bold, innovative, provocative \u003cbr\u003eand highly readable. \u003cbr\u003e- Khushwant Singh\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContents\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eACKNOWLEDGEMENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePREFACE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART ONE: THE TWO REGIONS 2000 BC TO AD 1800\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eThe Priests of Prehistory\u003cbr\u003eThe Man on Horseback\u003cbr\u003eIron, Krishna and Buddha Destroy the Tribe\u003cbr\u003ePorus: An Indus Version\u003cbr\u003ePax Mauryana: the First Universal State\u003cbr\u003eThe Oxus and the Indus\u003cbr\u003eThe Romance of Raja Rasalu\u003cbr\u003eFeudalization and the first Feudal State\u003cbr\u003eAn Arab Visitor\u003cbr\u003eMore Men on Horseback\u003cbr\u003eThe Second Feudal State\u003cbr\u003eTurbulent North, Peaceful South and Panipat\u003cbr\u003eThe Second Universal State\u003cbr\u003eResistance, Opportunism and Consumerism\u003cbr\u003eBhakti, Nanak and the Sufis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART TWO: THE TWO WORLDS AD 1600 TO AD 1897\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eThe Europe that Came to India\u003cbr\u003eThe India That Awaited Europe\u003cbr\u003eUneasy Heads on the Peacock Throne\u003cbr\u003eTombs, Ostentation and Land Tenure\u003cbr\u003eSea Power and Military Tactics\u003cbr\u003eThe Sikhs and the Subsidiary States\u003cbr\u003e1857\u003cbr\u003eThe Third Universal State\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART THREE: THE TWO NATIONS AD 1757 TO AD 1947\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003eThe Character of the Hindu Muslim Divide\u003cbr\u003eSonar Bangla\u003cbr\u003eThe Plunder\u003cbr\u003eThe Famine and Settlement\u003cbr\u003eThe Economic Divide\u003cbr\u003eWhither the Muslims?\u003cbr\u003eThe Songs of the Indus Fight\u003cbr\u003eParting of the Ways\u003cbr\u003eTowards Partition\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBIBLIOGRAPHY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINDEX\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The India Club","offers":[{"title":"Aitzaz Ahsan \/ Roli Books \/ Hardcover","offer_id":40789192245417,"sku":"16712","price":49.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0582\/1048\/4393\/products\/16712.jpg?v=1625569295","url":"https:\/\/indiaclub.com\/products\/16712-the-indus-saga-from-pataliputra-to-partition","provider":"The India Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}