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Pakistan History
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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.

Rajani, Shayan. “Before Ethnicity: Reading Sindh between Religion, Race, Language, and Nation.” Philological Encounters 7, no. 1–2 (2022): 129–60.

Author: Rajani, Shayan

Subject: Culture, Identity, Language Politics/Policies, Nation/Nationalism, Sindh, Sindhi Language

Rajani, Shayan. “The Four Nationality Thesis: A Conceptual History of a Forgotten Idea.” Journal of Sindhi Studies 2, no. 1 (October 28, 2022): 1–26.

Author: Rajani, Shayan

Subject: Conflict/Violence, Culture, Identity, Language Politics/Policies, Nation/Nationalism, Politics, Sindh, Sindhi Language, Urdu

Cook, Matthew A., and Maya Khemlani David. “Language Shift and Identity Reproduction Among Diaspora Sindhis in India and Southeast Asia.” Modern Asian Studies 54, 3 (2021).

Author: Cook, Matthew A.

Subject: Diaspora, Identity, Language Politics/Policies, Migration/Mobilities, Sindh, Sindhi Language

Ahmad, Mujeeb. “Jam‘īyyat-i-‘Ulama-i-Pakistan and the Language Controversy in Sindh (1972).” Journal of the Pakistan Historical Society XLVII, no. 2 (1999): 73-75. (pISSN 0030-9796). [Urdu]

Author: Ahmad, Mujeeb

Subject: Barelwis, Identity, Language Politics/Policies, Religio-Political Parties/Movements, Sindh, Sindhi Language, Urdu