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. “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

Niaz, Ilhan. “The Ain-i Akbari, The Turco-Persian Tradition of Imperial Governance and The Crisis of Leadership in Contemporary South Asia.” Strategic Studies 28/29 (2008): 45–63.

Author: Niaz, Ilhan

Niaz, Ilhan. Understanding and Addressing the Administrative Aspect of Pakistan’s Civil-Military Imbalance. Colombo: Regional Center for Strategic Studies, 2014.

Author: Niaz, Ilhan

Niaz, Ilhan. “The Lost War for Specialization: Pakistan’s Higher Bureaucracy in the 1960s and 1970s.” Journal of Social Sciences and Humanities (2019).

Author: Niaz, Ilhan

Niaz, Ilhan. “A Survey of Proprietorship, Continental Bureaucratic Empires, and the Culture of Power, in South Asian History.” The Pakistan Development Review 45, no. 3 (Autumn 2006): 327-339.

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