Pakistan: A Very Short Introduction
Pippa Virdee
mar. de 2022 · Tantor Media Inc · Narração de Shakira Shute
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What is Pakistan? The name refers to a seventy-year-old post-colonial product of the bloodiest partition of territory and population that accompanied the end of British empire in South Asia. But the region of the Indus Valley has a four-thousand-year-old history, and was the site of one of the earliest and greatest riverine civilizations in the world. Although the modern nation of Pakistan as we know it was created as a homeland for the Muslims of British India, it is impossible to understand the complex tapestry of linguistic, ethnic, and cultural identities and tensions of the region without tracing its deep past. This Very Short Introduction looks at Pakistan as one of the two nation-states of the Indian sub-continent that emerged in 1947. Pippa Virdee reaches into the ancient past to demonstrate the influence of trajectories of human settlement and civilization on Pakistan's contemporary political arena, and shows how the longer continuities between the land and its peoples are as important as the short-term changes in the political landscape. She considers Pakistan's religion and society, the state and the military, everyday life, popular culture, languages and literature, as well as Pakistan's relationship with the rest of the world. Virdee also looks to the challenges of the twenty-first century and the future of Pakistan.
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Pippa Virdee is a reader in modern South Asian history at De Montfort University. Virdee is the author of From the Ashes of 1947, and Coming to Coventry, Stories from the South Asian Pioneers, and is co-editor of Refugees and the End of Empire.
Shakira Shute is a trained actress/voice actor and alumna of the internationally acclaimed National Youth Theatre. She has been recording audiobooks for the past two years. With her background in theater (Soho Theatre, Lyric Hammersmith), Shakira brings passion and authenticity to each performance.
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