REQUIRED WORK:

Pankaj Mishra, a three-part article on Kashmir:
*"Death in Kashmir" (Part 1), The New York Review of Books 47,14 (Sept. 21, 2000): at the NYR site.
*"The Birth of a Nation" (Part 2), The New York Review of Books 47,15 (Oct. 5, 2000): at the NYR site.
*"Kashmir: The Unending War" (Part 3), The New York Review of Books 47, 16 (Oct. 19, 2000): at the NYR site.

*Barbara D. Metcalf, "Traditionalist" Islamic Activism: Deoband, Tablighis, and Talibs," on the SSRC website (better for online reading); on the CU website (better for printing out). An update: a post on the Tablighi Jamaat and terrorism, by Yogindar Sikand, Aug. 2006: on the CU website. A recent Tablighi Jamaat meeting in Pakistan, Nov. 2007: on the CU website.

*"Deoband fatwa terms terrorism an enemy: All kinds of ‘unjust violence’ rejected," Dawn, June 2, 2008: on the Dawn website.

*On Sunni-Sunni sectarian violence-- Praveen Swami, "Serious Threat to Pakistan's Civil Society," The Hindu (Apr. 18, 2006): on The Hindu's website; on the CU website (better for printing out).

*On modern Muslim life in Aurangabad-- James Traub, "Keeping Up With the Shidhayes: India's New Middle Class" (New York Times Magazine, April 15, 2001): on the CU website.

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POSSIBLE PAPER TOPIC TWELVE:

The novel Basti ("Town") by Intizar Husain (1979), available on the CU website, deals with Pakistani experience from Partition onward, culminating in the loss of East Pakistan in 1972. It is not entirely popular in Pakistan, and has often been accused of "nostalgia" for a pre-partition past. Looking at the novel as a whole, do you think Intizar Husain has a particular vision of what modern Pakistan should be like? What societal problems does he point to? How does he diagnose them, and what, if any, solutions does he suggest? How should the figure of Sabirah be interpreted?

 
 FURTHER RESOURCES:
 

ONLINE BOOKS:

*Sugate Bose and Ayesha Jalal. Modern South Asia: History, Culture, Political Economy. New York: Routledge, 1998: online through NetLibrary. Within their system, here is the exact location.

*Carl Ernst, Eternal Garden: Mysticism, History, and Politics at a South Asian Sufi Center. Albany: SUNY Press, 1992: online through NetLibrary. Within their system, here is the exact location.

*Barbara Daly Metcalf, Making Muslim Space in North America and Europe. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1996: Univ. of California Press. Also online through NetLibrary. Once within their system, you can go to the exact location. (Unfortunately this is not currently available to CU users, but I plan to change this.)
 

ONLINE ARTICLES:

*William R. Dalrymple, "The Real Islam," Time (Asia) 164,4-5 (July 26, 2004): on the Time website (with pictures); on the CU website (better for printing out).

*An overview by Romila Thapar on the Hindutva movement: on the South Asia Citizens Web site; this site is valuable and you might also want its home page.

*Irfan Habib, "History and Interpretation: Communalism and Problems of Historiography in India," in Frontline 14,16 (Aug. 9-22, 1997): on the Frontline site.

*Mushirul Hasan, "Adjustment and Accommodation: Indian Muslims After Partition," in Social Scientist 18, 207-8 (Aug.-Sep. 1990), pp. 48-65: online at DSAL.

*Robert D. Kaplan, "The Lawless Frontier," in the Atlantic, Sept. Oct. Nov. 2000; on the Atlantic website; also  on  the CU website.

*"“We Have No Orders To Save You”: State Participation and Complicity in Communal Violence in Gujarat" (report from Human Rights Watch on massacres, Feb. 2002 : [ site ]

*"In Pakistan, Rape Victims are the Criminals,"  New York Times, May 17th, 2002: on the CU website.

*Frontline 14, 16 (Aug. 9-22, 1997): India Independent-- 50 Years. A special issue full of unusually significant articles: [ site ]

*Joanna Kirkpatrick, "Bangladeshi Arts of the Riksha": at the Asian Art site.

*"Pakistan TV: A New Look at the News," by Amy Waldman. New York Times, January 25, 2004: on the CU website.
 

WEBSITES:

On Pakistan: the Virtual Library site, an excellent reference resource.

On Pakistan: "The Story of Pakistan," which goes in one leap from cave paintings to the Delhi Sultanate, then on to Pakistani political history.

On Kashmir:
    = The Kashmir Virtual Library, a comprehensive and reliable research tool
    =A good overview website on Kashmir with links to many related sites: at Kashmirgroup.

*The very elaborate website of Deoband today: darululoom-deoband.com.

*A website devoted to the writings of Eqbal Ahmad, including a tribute to him from Noam Chomsky as a "secular Sufi": site.

*A website devoted to Akbar Ahmed's recent film about Jinnah: jinnahthemovie.com.