Muslim League
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Musings on & Answers to “The Partition of Elites: India, Pakistan, and the Unfinished Trauma of 1947” (Part 3)
Arkacandra Jayasimha, in part three of a response to X.T.M’s Partition essay, argues India’s post-independence settlement was half-hearted on integration, letting Muslim power centres persist while dividing Hindus, and draws…
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Musings on & Answers to “The Partition of Elites: India, Pakistan, and the Unfinished Trauma of 1947” (Part 2)
Arkacandra Jayasimha, in part two of a response to X.T.M’s Partition essay, examines the thesis that the Muslim League won and most Muslims stayed, using Deleuze and Guattari to frame…
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Major Amin on the Failure of the Pakistani invasion in the First Kashmir War
Major Amin argues that the 1947 tribal invasion of Kashmir failed on the Muzaffarabad-Srinagar axis chiefly because Liaquat Ali Khan and Malik Ghulam Mohammad picked an unqualified relative to lead…
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Indians as Officers in the British Indian Army
Hamid Hussain offers notes on the first Indians to become officers in the British Indian Army, arguing that the common Pakistani view that the British favoured non-Muslims in the army…
