books you should read about South Asian History.
Book Name; Pakistan Pathway to Bomb, Ambitions, Politics and Rivalries Author; Dr. Mansoor Ahmed Khan Even before the 1971 war and separation of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), Pakistani establishment was thinking about a nuclear program. However, President General Ayub Khan turned down the proposal of his Foreign Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto to start a nuclear …
Book Name; Ordinary people Extra ordinary Violence, Naxalites and Hindu Extremists in India. Author; Chitralekha The book cover with an Eye Image carrying red and saffron colours explicitly coveys the subject matter of the book. The violence and extremism of the Naxalites bloody politics and communal violence of Hindu extremists against Muslims and other …
Book Name: Subaltern Studies; Writing on South Asian History and Society Author/ Editor: Ranjit Guha, et.al . What is our past? Who we are? Who and how the colonizers colonized and governed us? What were the reasons that made a whole population surrendered before a very small bunch of people? These and some more questions …
Book Name; Gender, Religion and Heathen lands: American Missionary Women is South Asia, 1860s-1940s Author: Maina Chawla Singh. There has always been a deep sense into the intelligentsia of the former colonized states to know about their past, something not given to them by their colonial masters. How and when they were colonized. What was …
Book Name; Literature and Politics in the age of Nationalism; The Progressive Episode in South Asia, 1932-56 Author; Dr. Talat Ahmed. The literary movement in British India to inspire and educate Indian peoples through writings about humanity, equality and social evils was left oriented and anti-imperialistic and anti-colonialism in nature. Any social, literary or economic …
Book Name; History Of Forensic Science in India ( Routledge South Asia Studies) Author; Saumitra Basu Forensic science also known by the name of criminalistics is the use of natural sciences to resolve a crime, investigate and present proofs in a court of law against the culprit. Saumitra Basu gives a historical glimpse of this …
Book Name; Bangladesh, India and Pakistan: International Relations and Regional Tensions in South Asia. Author; Kathryn Jacques. The book in review provides an analytical study of Bangladesh with its immediate neighbour India and former West Pakistan (now Pakistan) from whom it seceded in 1971 war. The 15 years period from 1975 to 1990 is considered …
