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Zaboor Ahmad
Ahmad Zaboor is pursuing Ph.D. from the University of Kashmir and teaches political science. He is a contributing author to the forthcoming book Modern South Asian Thinkers. He can be reached at ahmadzaboor@gmail.com.
Author: Ziya Us Salam Publisher: HarperCollins India Year of publication: 2020, Pages:260 Paperback $ 12.73 ₹ 399.00 In an Islamophobic age, it is increasingly becoming dangerous to be a Muslim, more so if one lives in an authoritarian regime and belongs to the minority community as well. The exactly the same thing
READ MOREBIBLIOGRAPHIC INFORMATION Author: Peer Ghulam Nabi Suhail pp194 Print publication date: 2018 Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: April 2018 DOI:10.1093/oso/9780199477616.001.0001 Over the years, few scholars in Kashmir and those writing outside India have moved away from the structural side of the Kashmir conflict and have argued that Indian rule in Kashmir is nothing less than
READ MOREAuthor Debidatta Aurobinda Mahapatra Cambridge University Press, 2018. pp 175 ISBN-13: 978-1108423892 ISBN-10: 9781108423892 by Ahmad Zaboor 12 August 2020 Mahapatra’s book is an autopsy of the intersections of political violence, deprivation, and conflict with special reference to Kashmir. It examines the vertical aspect of the conflict, in which the Indian State and a section of
READ MOREby Zaboor Ahmad 20 May 2019 India and Turkey are the two leading examples of secular states in the non-secular world. Both are constitutionally secular as there is no official religion in them. However, it is different from the western conception of state-religion dichotomy. Indeed the state has acted as intrusive and regulating authority in
READ MOREWhen the news of the proclamation of the so-called Islamic state was made by self-styled Baghdadi, very few had thought that it would emerge as a force to reckon with in different parts of the Muslim world. Well beyond the Middle east, it had a special significance for Central and South Asia. With the help
READ MOREPakistan as a post-colonial state has deployed two forms of reductionism against identities. One is identity disregard entailing either ignoring or neglecting them altogether. Second is singular affiliation which takes the form of assuming that particular person preeminently belongs to one collectivity only while subsuming all others. Both are toxic, incitement to ignore all affiliations
READ MORESect formation is not peculiar to the religion of Islam; however, the sectarian violence demonstrated all along in the Muslim world is a new phenomenon. What is happening between Shia and Sunni in a different nation of the world is less a result of theological dispute than the politics of the time in which Saudi
READ MOREIndian democracy at 70 by Meghnand Desai by Zaboor Ahmad April 5, 2018 Prime Minister Narendra Modi, while speaking on 7th February 2018 in Indian Parliament made the following claim about India’s democracy. “India did not get democracy due to Pandit Nehru, as Congress wants us to believe. Please look at our rich history.
READ MOREBook Review ‘Corruption is a problem of political economy.’ We live in the midst of scams and scandals- a scoundrel times, but simultaneously we also have become accustomed to corruption. The book under review is an attempt to get the measure of political corruption in contemporary India and see what could be done to combat
READ MOREby Zaboor Ahmad 15/2/2018 Ever since 1947, India and Pakistan have laid claim to Kashmir and scholars continue to search and dilate the reasons for this intractable conflict between them. Apart from the argument of accession signed by the last Dogra Hindu king, Hari Singh with India; India has sought to keep the Kashmir
READ MOREWhy Criminals are in demand in Indian Politics To all intents and purposes, the quality of democracy will suffer and deteriorate as the criminal elements are world over entering the legislative bodies. In this context, India is no exception. In India’s boisterous democracy, the discourse over the role of criminals in politics is
READ MOREWRONG DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN POLICIES PUSHING PAKISTAN IN QUAGMIRE OF SECTARIANISM Ahmad Zaboor Zahir-ud- din-Muhammad Babur, the King who established the mighty Mughal Empire in India, while on his death bed, bequeathed following wise counsels to his son Humayun, “overlook the differences between the Shias and Sunnis. Otherwise, the decrepitude of Islam would follow.” (John
READ MOREBook review: Indian Summer by Alex von Tunzelmann Indian Summer: The Secret History of the End of an Empire Author: Alex von Tunzelmann Henry Holt & Company 401 pp Released: 2007 Alex Von Tunzelmann, a British scholar in her path breaking book Indian summer, the secret history of the end of an empire is
READ MOREPakistan to all intents and purposes, was indeed carved out on the underpinnings of religion from its womb called Hindustan in which Islam was said to play a unifying role. But Pakistan that emerged has been ethnically and linguistically an amalgam of complex states. Pashtun’s and Punjabi’s are scattered along length and breadth of country
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