Since independence
South Asian history after 1947, including 1965 and 1971.
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Remembering DIG Lonsdale Niblett, Lahore’s Legendary Policeman
Reproduces an obituary of Lahore police officer Lonsdale Niblett, who died in Virginia aged 93, recalling his career from the Punjab Police in 1947, his choice of Pakistan at Partition…
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Atlas of the 1971 War
Reproduces the text of John H. Gill’s An Atlas of the 1971 India-Pakistan War, with its contents and preface, which calls the war the most important conflict between the two…
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Interview with a Mujahid: Maj Gen Tajammal Hussain Malik
An interview Major Amin conducted in 2001 with the late Maj Gen Tajammal Hussain Malik, a devout officer who planned to assassinate Zia, posted with a long introduction as a…
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Nicknames in the British Indian Army
Reposting an older essay by Hamid Hussain on officers’ nicknames, a British army tradition carried into the Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi armies, with examples such as ‘Sam’ Manekshaw, ‘Timmy’ Thimayya…
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Why Musa was made C in C Pakistan Army
Reposting Aslam Minhas, via Major Amin, on why Ayub Khan made General Musa commander-in-chief in 1958, overlooking the better qualified Habibullah Khan, a choice that some officers later saw as…
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The Reincarnation of India
Taking Nehru’s ‘Tryst with Destiny’ speech as a starting point, the author uses the idea of the soul and of rebirth to argue that independent India’s early statism and regulation…
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Book Review: Blood Over Different Shades of Green: East Pakistan 1971 History Revisited
Hamid Hussain reviews Ikram Sehgal and Bettina Robotka’s Blood Over Different Shades of Green, praising a candid account by an army officer of mixed Punjabi and Bengali parentage, and noting…
