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Of Reason, Romance and Ruin: a Conceptual History Of the 'Pakistan Ideology'
[Hardback - 2024]
nadeem farooq paracha
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Category: History
Sub-category: South Asian History
Additional Category: Pakistan Studies
Publisher: Vanguard Books Pakistan | ISBN: 9789694026824 | Pages: 112
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Nadeem Farooq Paracha traces the political currents that led to the formulation of what has come be known as the ‘Pakistan Ideology.’ This ideology was unveiled in the late 1970s and first introduced through textbooks. It was to be followed by all government and state institutions. This continues to be the case. The ‘ideology’ explains what being a Pakistani means.

However, the ideology has often been criticized by a growing number of scholars for using half-truths and even outright fibs to build a particular version of Pakistan’s foundational history. Paracha posits that instead of forming a consensual idea of Pakistani nationalism, it has caused ethnic, religious, sectarian and political fissures.

In a bid to derive a more holistic understanding of the making and function of the ‘Pakistan ideology,’ Paracha explores the major intellectual and political sources that were used (and on many occasions, misused) to construct it.

About the Author

Nadeem Farooq Paracha is a well-known author, researcher and social commenter. He has written eight books on the social, cultural and political history of Pakistan. These include best-sellers such as, End of the Past (2016), Points of Entry (2018), and Imran Khan: Myth of the Pakistani Middle-Class (2023). Paracha is also a widely-read columnist for Pakistan's largest English-language daily, DAWN, and Head of Ideas and Research at Adcom Leo Burnett. In 2018, he was accepted as a Research Scholar by the International Forum for Democratic Studies in Washington DC.

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