Inventing Pakistan: History of a National Inception

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Readings:
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Prakash, Om. “Roots of Islamic Separatism in Indian Subcontinent.” Proceedings of the Indian History Congress, vol. 64, 2003, pp. 1049–65. http://www.jstor.org/stable/44145532.

 

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Good analysis. With the safe distance of 75 years of hindsight, if one were to be presented with the problem today, it is difficult to think of a more satisfactory solution to the problems the people of 1947 faced. The presentation can be extended further using other partitions for comparison - like USSR, China-Tawan, North and South Korea, Czech-Slovak, devolution of Scotland, vote for Quebec etc., And also aggregations to see what works - like EU, ASEAN, NAFTA etc., May be the future will be filled with aggregations like EU rather than large nation states.