The Pity of Partition is an attempt to craft a new method to dig up micro-history on January 9, 2020The Pity of Partition is a life history of great Urdu short story writer Sadat Hasan Manto authored by the most prolific and acknowledged historian of South Asia, Ayesha Jalal. The book is based on the Lawrence Stone Lectures that Jalal gave at the Davis Center at Princeton University in April 2011. Ayesha Jalal is […]
The Struggle for Pakistan — tumultuous but eventful on November 15, 2019Ayesha Jalal is a Mary Richardson Professor of History at Tufts University. She is also the author of The Partisans of Allah – Jihad in South Asia and a number of other most erudite scholarly pieces on South Asia in general and Pakistan in particular. This book is mostly recommended for those who want to […]