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- January 18, 2021
Partisans of Allah: Jihad in South Asia, by Ayesha Jalal, Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA 2008, Paperback, 400 pgs, $21.15 Amazon, ISBN-13: 978-0674047365- by Arnold Zeitlin 18 January 2021 The concept of jihad has roiled the Islamic world and the rest of the world since the beginning of the Islamic era. The Arabic
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- December 30, 2020
The Nine Lives of Pakistan: Dispatches from a Precarious State, by Declan Walsh, W.W. Norton & Co., publisher, New York City, Hardcover, 2020, 335 pgs, $30 ISBN: 9780393249910. Despite the title of his book, author Declan Walsh actually focuses on eight lives, perhaps leaving the ninth for Pakistan. Five of those lives end
READ MORE The Bhutto Dynasty: The Struggle for Power in Pakistan, by Owen Bennett-Jones, Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 27 October 2020, Hardcover, 320 pages, $28, ISBN: 97880300246674. By Arnold Zeitlin Owen Bennett-Jones’s account of a Bhutto dynasty reminded me that I enjoyed a rare, near-quixotic relationship with Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto during my time, September 1969 to April 1972, as
READ MOREHarperCollins, India, 2020, 208pp, hardcover, $21.95 ISBN-13: 978-9353578015 ISBN-10: 9353578019 Author: Aparna Pande by Arnold Zeitlin 14 November 2020 Considering Aparna Pande’s approach to making India great, her brisk survey of the country’s ills might have been better entitled Deconstructing India. “India has embraced modernity, but only partially,” Pande writes, a lament repeated throughout her book. “…..India’s
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- August 26, 2020
Author: Richard Sisson & Leo E. Rose, University of California Press, Berkeley, California 1990 Paperback, 338 pages, $23.97 on Amazon, ISBN-13: 978-0520076655 Review by: Arnold Zeitlin 27 August 2020 War and Secession remain 30 years after its first publication, the go-to book for a concise, yet comprehensive account of the events that led
READ MOREAuthor: Rana Ayyub, self-published, 2016, Paperback, 204 pages Originally published: March 25, 2016, Subject: 2002 Gujarat riots by Andrew Zeitlin 20 August 2020 Rana Ayyub, an Indian investigative reporter and practicing Muslim, disguised herself as a Hindu Indian-American filmmaker and, equipped with tiny cameras and recorder secreted in her kurta, diary, and wristwatch, went off in
READ MORE by Shashi Tharoor, Scribe Publications, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 201, 294 pg, Paperback, $17.95, ISBN: 978-1-9475-3430-8 by Arnold Zeitlin 10 August 2020 Shashi Tharoor is an angry Indian. He is bitter at the British as he outlines their more than two centuries of exploiting Indian resources and people, then departing hastily in 1947 to permit
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