You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
None
This study provides insights into Pakistan's historical development through focusing on politics in Sindh, a key province constituting the new nation state in 1947. This examination of party and ministerial politics at the provincial level provides a unique perspective that is relatively little known. It contributes to a deeper understanding of Pakistan and the challenges and difficulties it has faced following independence in establishing a stable political system and government.
Festschrift in honor of Husni Djamaluddin, 1934-2004, a journalist, poet, and political activist in Makassar; collection of articles.
Collection of essays regarding political, social, and cultural issues in Indonesia.
" ... Documents the history and development of [Post-colonial literatures in English, together with English and American literature] and includes original research relating to the literatures of some 50 countries and territories. In more than 1,600 entries written by more than 600 internationally recognized scholars, it explores the effect of the colonial and post-colonial experience on literatures in English worldwide.
Itulah Husni Djamaluddin atau "Bung Husni" kita. Bung Husni, penyair dan intelektual serba-bisa. Buah pikirannya yang cerdas, kritis, tajam dan langsung kena sasaran, dituangkan ke dalam esai berupa "tajuk" dan "kolom" atau tulisan lepas pada harian Fajar yang merupakan surat kabar terkemuka dan terbesar di belahan timur tanah air yang terbit di Makassar sejak 1982. Pesan-pesan tematis yang terjabar di dalam alur atau "plot" dari esai-esainya (tajuk dan kolom) selalu berawal dari semacam kegelisahan yang timbul di dalam dirinya ketika menyaksikan apa yang sedang terjadi yang bertentangan dengan sesuatu altematif ideal yang didambakannya bersama para warga dan kelompok masyarakat. [Pustaka Jaya, Dunia Pustaka Jaya, Husni Djamaludin, buku sastra, budaya, esai]
This fascinating book uncovers the hidden stories behind Pakistan’s fixation with blasphemy–tales of revenge, political scheming and sovereign betrayal. Hussain’s account opens in nineteenth-century colonial Punjab and traces blasphemy killings to the present, linking their emergence to polemic encounters between Hindu and Muslim revivalist sects, namely the Arya Samaj and the Ahmadiyya. It offers, for the first time, the arresting backstories to the assassinations of Pandit Lekh Ram, a leading Hindu nationalist; Swami Shraddhanand, an early progenitor of Hindu nationalism and the principal advocate for converting Muslims; and Rajpal, the Hindu publisher of a sensationalist book on the...
None