A Historical Atlas of Pakistan
A Historical Atlas of Pakistan

Author: Robert Greenberger

Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc

Published: 2002-12-15

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 9780823938667

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Maps and text chronicle the history of Pakistan, from the ancient Indus Valley civilizations to the rule of Pervez Musharraf.

The Map Book
The Map Book

Author: Peter Barber

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2005-01-01

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 0802714749

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Chronicles the historical development of maps and mapping from the Bronze Age to the present, collecting some 175 maps spanning ten millennia that represent the progress of civilization and technology, from military plans that depict enemy positions, to the famed London Underground layout, to the digitally enhanced renderings of today.

Old Maps and New
Old Maps and New

Author: Kavita Panjabi

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 108

ISBN-13:

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This was the city from which my grandmother, hugging two teenage sons close to her, had boarded a ship packed tight with refugees heading for Bombay never to see her homeland again. With this sentence starts a journey across time and several borders including those of the mind as the author begins a quest back into the past to understand how dislocation and loss of home impacts on families and how it interweaves with history to create the present we inhabit. This compelling journey criss-crosses a landscape consisting of the contemporary, the past, the peace movement and the women s movement in India and Pakistan, moving from the deeply personal to broader social and historic concerns and back again. This is rare and deeply moving piece of introspection, brimming with the energy of actual experience seen through the eyes of a woman whose own background in literature, women s studies and social activism forms the perspective from which she speaks. Kavita Panjabi teaches Comparative Literature and Women s Studies at Jadavpur University, Calcutta.

Maps for Lost Lovers
Maps for Lost Lovers

Author: Nadeem Aslam

Publisher: Random House India

Published: 2012-09-25

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 8184003307

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Set in a nameless British town that its Pakistani-born immigrants have renamed Dasht-e-Tanhaii, the Desert of Solitude, Maps for Lost Lovers is an exploration of cultural tension and religious bigotry played out in the personal breakdown of a single family. As the book begins, Jugnu and Chanda, whose love is both passionate and illicit, have disappeared from their home. Rumours about their disappearance abound, but five months pass before anything certain is known. Finally, on a snow-covered January morning, Chanda’s brothers are arrested for the murder of their sister and Jugnu. Maps for Lost Lovers traces the year following Jugnu and Chanda’s disappearance. Seen principally through the eyes of Jugnu’s brother Shamas, the cultured, poetic director of the local Community Relations Council and Commission for Racial Equality, and his wife Kaukab, mother of three increasingly estranged children and devout daughter of a Muslim cleric, the event marks the beginning of the unravelling of all that is sacred to them. It fills Shamas’s own house and life with grief and, in exploring the lovers’ disappearance and its aftermath, Nadeem Aslam discloses a legacy of miscomprehension and regret not only for Shamas and Kaukab but for their children and neighbours as well. An intimate portrait of a community searingly damaged by traditions, this is a densely imagined, beautiful and deeply troubling book written in heightened prose saturated with imagery. It casts a deep gaze on themes as timeless as love, nationalism and religion, while meditating on how these forces drive us apart.