Aligarh
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Pakistan Punches Above Its Weight. Blame Aligarh.
X.T.M asks how Pakistan produces so much culture for its income, crediting Lucknow and Aligarh rather than Bollywood. In his account the Urdu-speaking salariat carried that culture west in 1947,…
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Caste in Pakistan
A reader comment, signed Abdul Majeed, argues that caste matters greatly in Pakistan despite appearing invisible in big cities, shaping elections, marriages and dealings with bureaucrats, and accuses Sir Syed…
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Comment of the Day
X.T.M promotes a comment arguing that the Pakistan movement involved more than Jinnah, citing the clerics Shabbir Ahmad Usmani and Husain Ahmad Madani, and that the central dispute was minority…
