A look at the racist beliefs about Bengalis peddled privately and publicly by Pakistani military officials in the lead up to 1971.

A travelogue along the Karakoram Highway exploring the relationship of Pakistan’s Gilgit-Baltistan territory with China’s Xinjiang province, home to the persecuted Uyghurs.

The cyclone in 1970, though not always recognized, was instrumental in the independence of Bangladesh.

Three captivating short stories on the Bangladesh Freedom Struggle that vividly capture the disruption and outbreak of violence during the period.

Colonial India depended on Afghan migrant labour, at the same time as it regulated and expelled them in its border-making projects.

Though illuminating key debates, Jason Hickel’s recent case for degrowth falls short of its global objective – with not enough to offer regions like South Asia. 

Pakistani leftist artists were not only opposing Zia-ul-Haq’s military rule but also challenging similar US-backed dictatorships around the world.

In a book that breaks new ground in scholarship on Pakistani militarism, Maria Rashid explores how the Pakistan Army manages emotions like grief, pride and fear among foot soldiers and their families.

February 21, 1952 remains one of the most significant dates in the history of Bangladesh, a landmark day in the context of the 1971 liberation war. To understand how the Bhasha Andolan (Language Movement) became a mass uprising, we must look at the class struggle that led up to the movement.

A review of Rosita Armytage’s Big Capital in an Unequal World: The Micropolitics of Wealth in Pakistan.

Since the day Bhaiya disappeared, it was a silence the family had agreed to tiptoe around without prior discussion. Fatima Jafar writes a short story about enforced disappearances.

With the revival of Pakistan’s feminist movement, Memon recovers one of the country’s less-appreciated women-led organizations—one rooted in the peasantry, not the urban middle-class.