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From Purdah to Parliament
A Simple And Absorbing Narrative Of The Life And Times Of Shaista Suhrawardy Ikramullah. The Account Covers The Days Of The British Raj And Its Aftermath.
Ganga/Jamuni
This book has resulted from the author's response to what she believed to be an assault, about ten years ago, on her Muslim cultural identity. It is important to understand at the very outset that this book cannot encompass the vast diversity of India, or Pakistan, or Bangladesh. India is the counry where Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism were born.To India fled the Zoroastrians from Persia (Iran) to escape persecution after the advent of Islam in that country. Christians have also lived in India from about 50 AD, a time which precedes the coming of Jesuit priests to Emperor Akbar's court and of Christian missionaries in the wake of the East India Company and the British Empire in India. This book is more concerned with the shared culture of Hindus, who were in India before the Muslims came there, first as traders and later as invaders, and the Muslims who stayed and became a part of India.
Shaista Ikramullah
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Behind the Veil
Originally published in 1953, Behind the Veil captures the splendor and opulence of "life behind the veil": the women's world where over the centuries in the courts of the Mughal Kings of Delhi and Lucknow, unobserved and unattended by men, many of Pakistan and India's customs and ceremonies evolved. Shaista Ikramullah's exquisite collection of essays examines how in this women's world the vanished glory of the past lived on. It is in the pageantry of the wedding ceremonies, in the dazzle of the jewelry, and in the variety of dresses that one still finds the magic of the Orient and the East.
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Regret
Regret brilliantly recreates a childhood shattered by the Partition of India in 1947. Two lifelong friends, Ehsan and Saeed, reminisce about idyllic summer days spent bunking school, swimming in the canal and relishing the thrills of first love—before the division of the subcontinent changed things forever. Out of Sight recounts the story of Ismail, who narrowly escaped the carnage of 1947 in his youth. Now, looking back on his life and despairing of the sudden resurgence of sectarian violence in Pakistan, Ismail resolves to protect those closest to him. Deeply moving, Ikramullah’s two novellas skilfully evoke the long shadow cast by the violence of Partition.
Common Heritage
Through the accounts of its eight contributors, each a notable individual in either India or Pakistan, Common Heritage makes an important statement by highlighting the affinities, common past, and friendships between the two neighbouring peoples. It recalls life in the subcontinent as it wasbefore the bitterness of politics marred human relationaships between the major communities of pre-partition India.
Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy
Perhaps the only politician to straddle the East and West wings of Pakistan, Suhrawardy was well aware of the centrifugal tendencies that threatened to unmake the new nation. As such, his entire career after Independence was devoted to removing the growing misunderstandings between the two wings. Ikramullah shows how the events that culminated in the collapse of democracy and the establishment of military rule in 1958 had their beginnings in the ruling cliques's maneuverings to keep Suhrawardy out of power. Their success, unfortunately, meant the end of efforts to bridge the differences between East and West Pakistan which resulted in, just eight years after the death of Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, the secession of East Pakistan from the West to form the independent state of Bangladesh.
