Tag: empire

There are a number of matters highlighted by recent authors that led to the downfall of the Afghan Republic. Chief ...

A Pakhtun poet named Mawezi in the poem below describes Azim Khan’s messenger’s arrival at Peshawar and imploring people to ...

This author has written extensively about his childhood in the walled city of Lahore where his family had settled after ...

It can be perplexing to take a view of the rapid rise of the Arabs, beginning with the theological foundations ...

Manchester Museum, part of the University of Manchester, will reopen to the public on February 18 2023 following a major ...

The Company’s entry into India had begun with the Battle of Plassey in Bengal in 1757. The Company’s forces were ...

Lad Malika was the first wife of Sher Shah Suri, who had defeated Mughal Emperor Humayun to bring an end ...

It was around 1939-40. Subhas was the head of Congress Party, but a serious conflict arose and a new group ...

The death of Queen Elizabeth II has been marked nearly universally as the passing away of a lady of immense ...

Broadly speaking, Pakistani historiography has tended to focus mainly on the country’s high politics, but a few have penned the ...

North India’s Persian- and Urdu-speaking aristocracy and literati, known as the Ashraafia or noble-born of putative foreign ancestors, was overly ...

Rarely are men who are renowned in their time gifted with both intellect and a caring heart. Noam Chomsky is ...

“Takkar is in the throes of war, Bullets are flying everywhere, and the trees are shedding their leaves, And Takkar ...

Those who forget history are condemned to relive it. It is interesting to see how one can learn so much ...

It was Ramadan in the year 1841 and Abdullah Khan Achakzai was probably wondering what tribulations he had fallen under. ...

We consider here an important work by a Pakistani American scholar on the Mujadidi Sufi networks that spread after the ...

We all know about the great Mughal Empire that ruled over the Indian Subcontinent from 1526 AD to 1857 AD. ...

Chitral and Gilgit-Baltistan have much in common. Although Chitral is culturally and linguistically linked to Gilgit-Baltistan, it has never been ...

By 1843, the British had occupied a good part of Sindh in very little time, using primarily a combination of ...

Abdul Ghaffar Khan (aka Bacha Khan or Badshah Khan) is a renowned leader of the Pashtuns, and for good reason. ...

Believe it or not, there is a society in Lahore which is doing a very important and basic work in ...

The eventual return of the Taliban to the helm at Kabul may be described as “sweeping,” but it cannot be ...