Muhajirs
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Pakistani Diversity
I have never actually met a Pakistani who thinks they are Arab or Turk ethnically. Claiming lineage is not ethnicity.
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Bollywood, Brahmins, Parsis & WASPs:
X.T.M argues that elites are reproduced by property, institutions and networks rather than blood, so intermarriage is usually a merger, not a threat, citing English aristocrats and American heiresses, Parsis,…
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India Is No Longer Legible to Pakistani Liberals
X.T.M argues that Pakistani liberals, especially those of Muhajir or North Indian lineage, project a pre-1947 India that no longer exists, using India as a stage for their liberalism while…
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Why Hasn’t Pakistan Collapsed Yet?
X.T.M argues Pakistan has held together because it anchors a self-image drawn from the Lucknow-Delhi Indo-Muslim tradition, and that ownership of that legacy follows continuity among people, not territory, census…
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On the Question of Who “Owns” the Indo-Muslim Legacy
X.T.M, prompted by Sophia Khan’s piece on lost Muslim cities, argues Pakistanis with family roots in Delhi and Lucknow may fairly claim the Indo-Muslim legacy, since India itself selectively appropriates…
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Pakistaniat & Urdu from Qasim to Quaid
X.T.M reflects on Urdu as a language between Persian and Arabic, shares a Bahá’í prayer in Urdu, and suggests Pakistan is a project rooted in sentiment rather than soil, in…
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Comment of the Day:
A reader comment promoted to a post: it likens Dalits to Black Americans in the segregated South, and argues that Indian nationalism prizes territory over people while Pakistan is rooted…
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Zinda Laash (the Living Corpse)
X.T.M argues Pakistan’s biggest mistake was moving its capital from Karachi to Islamabad, which he says contributed to secession, Punjabified the country and cost Muhajirs political power.
