Pakistan History
Bibliography

Welcome to the Pakistan History Bibliography-a curated collection of scholarly resources designed to support researchers, students, and history enthusiasts. This bibliography brings together books, articles, and digital curations on the histories of territories, cultures, societies, ideas, environment, and more relevant to the study of Pakistan.

Compiled by Dr. Sana Haroon (Professor of History and Asian Studies at UMass Boston) and Hosted by Habib University Library and Information Commons.

Niaz, Ilhan. “Judicial Activism and the Evolution of Pakistan’s Culture of Power.” The Round Table 109, no. 1 (2020): 23–41.

Author: Niaz, Ilhan

Niaz, Ilhan. “A Framework for Assessing the Performance of Chief Justices of Pakistan.” Asian Affairs 56, no. 3 (2025): 473–91.

Author: Niaz, Ilhan

Niaz, Ilhan. “Provincial Administration in Pakistan and the Crisis of Order and Development.” South Asia: A Journal of South Asian Studies 34, no. 2 (2011): 232-254.

Author: Niaz, Ilhan

Niaz, Ilhan. “The Long Remonstrance: Pakistan’s Receding Writ of the State in Light of the Federal Law and Order Commission Report of 1993.” The Journal of Policy History 27 no. 2 (2015): 275–300.

Author: Niaz, Ilhan

Niaz, Ilhan. “The Neglected Administrative Foundations of Pakistan’s Constitutional Democracy.” New Zealand Journal of Asian Studies 13, no. 2 (2011): 52-67.

Author: Niaz, Ilhan

Niaz, Ilhan. “Advising the State: Bureaucratic Leadership and the Crisis of Governance in Pakistan, 1952–2000.” Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 21, no. 1 (2011): 41–53.

Author: Niaz, Ilhan

Niaz, Ilhan. “Kautilya’s Arthashastra and Governance as an Element of State Power.” Strategic Studies 28, no. 2/3 (2008): 1:17.

Author: Niaz, Ilhan

Niaz, Ilhan. “The Rise and Rise of the Ulema in Pakistan and the Reassertion of a Medieval Culture of Power: 1947-1952.” Asian Profile 35, no. 2 (2007): 117-127.

Author: Niaz, Ilhan

Niaz, Ilhan. “A System Suited to the Genius of the People: The Pursuit of a Presidential Pakistan, 1954-1969, and its Legacy.” Asian Affairs 51, no. 3 (2020): 569-589.

Author: Niaz, Ilhan