Jahangir: A Connoisseur Of Mughal Art

By Sanjeev P. Srivastava

This book is the author’s third great work showing the character and personality of Prince Salim who ruled India after the death of Akbar. The present study based on authentic primary sources attempts to present the artistic heritage of his ancestors followed by his own innovations known as Muraqqas in miniature painting [...]

Embroidery from India and Pakistan (Fabric Folios)

By Sheila Paine
Focusing on over 20 textiles from the British Museum’s fabulous collection, this book explores the wonderful folk embroidery of Indian and Pakistan–in particular the domestic work made by women for their own dowry or family. Illustrated in full and in detail, these richly decorated items–costumes and household textiles–will provide [...]

Daughter of the East: An Autobiography (Revised & Updated with New Chapters)

By Benazir Bhutto
Beautiful, charismatic, and the first and only woman to lead a post-colonial Muslim state, Benazir Bhutto achieved international renown in her native Pakistan until charges of corruption forced her into exile in the late 1990s. From her upbringing in one of Pakistan’s richest families to her subsequent politicization and her arrest following her [...]

Kashmir : The Untold Story

By Humra Quraishi
Since 1989, Kashmir has rarely been out of the headlines, as local militants, foreign terrorists and Indian security forces battle it out in a region once known as `paradise on earth’. In all the propaganda, and news and statistics about terrorist strikes, counter insurgency operations and the foreign hand, the [...]

A Very Short History of the World

By Geoffrey Blainey
A Very Short History of the World” is the story of the world’s people during the last four million years. It begins before human beings moved out of Africa to explore and settle the other continents. It is a story of the inhabited world being pulled apart, and of [...]

The Glory of the Sultans: Islamic Architecture in India 1100-1880

By Yves Porter and Gerard Degeorge
Between the twelfth and the mid-nineteenth centuries, most of the Indian subcontinent was under Muslim domination, giving rise to a unique architectural blend of Islamic, Turkish, and Persian influences. This scholarly work provides a comprehensive view of this architectural fusion, explaining in depth [...]

JINNAH: India Partition Independence

By Jaswant Singh

‘Lord Mountbatten: I tried every trick I could play… to shake Jinnah’s resolve….Nothing would…move him from his consuming determination to realise the dream of Pakistan…The date I chose (for Independence) came out of the blue. I was determined to show I was master of the whole event.’
This is paralysing in its insensitivity, the [...]

Pakistan at Knife’s Edge

By M. B. Naqvi
Pakistan at Knife’s Edge is veteran journalist M.B Naqvis’s understanding of contemporary Pakistan and the directions the country could take or ought to. From the sacking of the chief justice of the Supreme Court, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, by General Pervez Musharraf, to the return of Benazir Bhutto and [...]

Empires of the Indus: From Tibet to Pakistan – The Story of a River

By Alice Albinia
One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains, flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. For millennia it has been worshipped as a god; for centuries used as a tool of imperial expansion; today it is the cement [...]