Lahore University of Management Sciences

SS102: Pakistan Studies

Spring 2017-2018
Course Catalog Description

This course is an introduction to the history of Pakistan. In order for students to develop a critical approach to Pakistan Studies, they will be reading
diverging scholarly perspectives, alongside some primary documents and be expected to build their own conclusions about Pakistans historical
truths. The focus, throughout the course, will be to highlight some of the aspects of Pakistani history that receive limited attention in traditional
Pakistan Studies courses, so that students knowledge base is expanded.

In addition, the course engages with several contemporary and chronic issues facing the country through a multidisciplinary approach including
ideas and concepts from the fields of Economics, Sociology, Anthropology, International Relations, Development Studies and of course, History.

The first three themes of the course deal with the formation of Pakistan questioning its origins and the historical exigencies that preceded it.
Sessions 4 to 7 focus on various aspects of Pakistans political and social landscape by looking at the nature of the state, the power of the military
and national resistance movements in the country. Sessions 8 and 9 examine the role of foreign actors in Pakistans historical experience. Sessions
10 onwards focus on contemporary issues warranting deeper examination within the context of Pakistan.

Course Details
Credit Hours 2
Core University Core
Elective
Open for Student Category BS students
Closed for Student Category

Course Prerequisite(s)/Co-Requisite(s)
None

Course Offering Details

Lecture(s) Nbr of Lec(s) Per Week 1 Duration 110 min Timings
and Venue
Recitation (per week) Nbr of Rec (s) Per x Duration Not Applicable
Week
Lab (if any ) per week Nbr of Session(s) Per x Duration Not Applicable
Week
Tutorial (per week) Nbr of Tut(s) Per 1 Duration 60 mins
Week

Instructor Adeel Shafqat

Room No. TBA
Office Hours TBA
Email adeel.shafqat@lums.edu.pk
Telephone 042-35608203
Secretary/TA TBA
TA Office Hours TBA
Course URL (if any) LMS and Zambeel
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Course Learning Outcomes

SS102- The students should be able to:

CLO1: Identify and distinguish between debates and competing narratives in the history of Pakistan.
CLO2: Use these narratives to develop their own opinion on major events and conflicts in the countrys history and the effect (if any)
these have had on the country today and on their own personal lives.
CLO3: Explain and debate the relationship between national and international events, with respect to Pakistan, particularly between 1945
and 1988.
CLO4: Demonstrate the difference between summarizing information and picking relevant material from a large number of readings to
critically answer a specific question with very limited space/time.

Relation to EE Program Outcomes

EE-240
Related PLOs Levels of Learning Teaching Methods CLO Attainment checked in
CLOs
CLO1 PLO6 Cog-1 Instruction, Tutorial, Assignments Response papers, Quizzes, Presentation
CLO2 PLO6 Cog-3 Instruction, Tutorial, Assignments Family History Reflection Paper, Final
CLO3 PLO6 Cog-4 Instruction, Tutorial, Assignments Presentation, Final
CLO4 PLO10 Cog-4 Instruction, Tutorial, Assignments Presentation, Response papers,
Final

Grading Breakup and Policy

Attendance and CP: 05%
Quizzes: (best 3 out of 4) 30%
Family History Reflection Paper: 10%
Group Project: 20%
Final Exam: 35%

Compulsory readings that should be completed before each class are marked with an asterisk (*)

COURSE OVERVIEW

Week Primary material (to be Related CLOs &

Topic Reading
No. discussed in class) Additional Remarks

Jalib, Habib. Pakistan ka matlab kia (What does

1 Introduction
Pakistan mean) trans. Fowpe Sharma, in H Jalib Ten
Ali, Chaudhry Rahmat. Excerpt
Poems Revolutionary Democracy 9: 1
from What Does the Pakistan
National Movement Stand for? CLO 1
Aziz, K.K. The Calamity of Errors. The Murder of
(Cambridge: Pakistan National CLO2
History: A Critique of History Textbooks used in
Movement, 1942), pp. 4-8
Pakistan. (Lahore: Vanguard, 2004), pp. 118-174.*
(only the section on 1857)

Jalal, Ayesha. Conjuring Pakistan: History as Official Secret Telegram from CLO1
Where can we locate
Imagining. International Journal of Middle East Governor-General to Secretary CLO3
2 the origins of
Studies, 27, 1 (1995), 73-89. of State for India, New Delhi, Presentations begin
Pakistan?
April 6 1940. in week 3
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Ahsan, Aitzaz. Introduction, The Indus Saga and
the Making of Pakistan (Karachi: OUP, 1996), pp. 3- Sharma, H.D. (ed). Jawaharlal
25. Nehru on The Cabinet Mission
Proposals; Mohammad Ali
Sharma, H.D. (ed). Jawaharlal Nehru on The Jinnah on Now Direct Action;
Cabinet Mission Proposals; Mohammad Ali Jinnah Lord Wavell. The Interim
on Now Direct Action; Lord Wavell. The Interim Government. All speeches
Government. All speeches reproduced in pp. 364- reproduced in pp. 364-374*
374*

Talbot, Ian. The 1946 Punjab Elections, Modern

Asian Studies, 14: 1 (1980): 65-91.*

Alavi, Hamza. The State in Post-Colonial Societies:

Pakistan and Bangladesh, New Left Review, no. 72
(1972): 59-81.* (to be read from p. 63 onward). *

Aziz, K. K. (1976). The Imperial Impact in The

British in India- A study in Imperialism. Islamabad:
Pakistans Colonial National Commission on Historical and Cultural
3
Legacy Research.

Talbot, Ian (2005) Colonial Rule, Authoritarianism

and Regional History in North West India in
Pakistan: A Modern History. London: Hurst &
Company. Pp 53-65.

Rizvi, Hasan-Askari. The Military and Politics in

Pakistan. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 26: 1-
2 (1991), pp. 27-42. *

Jalal, Ayesha. Constructing the State, State of

Martial Rule: The origins of Pakistans Political
Democratization and Economy of Defence. (Cambridge: Cambridge CLO1, 2 & 3.
4
Military Rule - I University Press, 1990)* Family History
Reflection Paper is
Ghias, Shoaib. Miscarriage of Chief Justice: Judicial due in week 7
Power and the Legal Complex in Pakistan under
Musharraf. Law & Social Inquiry, 45: 4 (2010), pp.
985-1022.

Waseem, M. (2003). The reasons for democratic

downslide in Zaidi (ed) Continuity and Change:
Socio-Political and Institutional Dynamics in
Pakistan. Karachi: City Press. Pp. 59-78. *
Democratization and
5
Military Rule - II Nasr, S. Vali. 1997. State, Society and the Crisis of
National Identity. In State, Society and Democratic
Change in Pakistan, Rasul Bakhsh Rais (ed). Karachi:
OUP. 104 - 130.

Milam, William B. The Legacy of Two Bloody USAID officials eyewitness

Partitions. Bangladesh and Pakistan: Flirting with account (March 1971)
Civil War and
6 Failure in South Asia (London: Hurst & Company,
Dismemberment
2009). * White Paper on the
Disturbances in East Pakistan
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Meghna Guhathakurta & Willem van Schendel
(eds). The Bangladesh Reader: History, Culture,
Politics. (Durham: Duke University Press, 2013), pp.
215-236. *

Saikia, Yasmin. Creating the History of 1971.

Women, War and the Making of Bangladesh:
Remembering 1971 (Duke University Press, 2011),
pp. 45-133.

Samad, Yunas. Pakistan or Punjabisation: Crisis of

National Identity International Journal of Punjab
Studies, 2:1 (1995): 23-42.*

Khan, Adeel. Renewed Ethnonationalist Insurgency

in Balochistan, Pakistan. Asian Survey, Vol. XLIX,
No. 6 (2009).
Regionalism in
7
Pakistan
Syed, Anwar H. 1980. The Idea of a Pakistani
Nationhood. Polity. 12(4): 575 -597.

Ahmed, Feroz .1996. Ethnicity, Class and State in

Pakistan. Economic and Political Weekly. 31(47):
3050 3053

Jalal, Ayesha. Towards the Baghdad Pact: South

Asia and Middle East Defence in the Cold War,
1947-1955, The International History Review, 11: 3
(1989), pp. 409-433. *

Bhattacharjee, Dhrubajyoti. "China Pakistan

8 Foreign Relations
Economic Corridor." Available at SSRN 2608927
(2015). *
CLO1
Rizvi, H.A. (2004) Pakistan's Foreign Policy: An
Overview 1947-2004. PILDAT. pp. 9-28.

Zahab, Mariam Abou. The Regional Dimension of

Sectarian Conflicts in Pakistan. Pakistan:
Nationalism without a Nation? (London: Zed Books,
2002).
(available online on books.google.com)

Gul, Imtiaz. Transnational Islamic networks.

International Review of the Red Cross, 92 (2010),
pp. 899-923.*
Terrorism and
9
Violence
Ahmed, Mumtaz. 1998, Revivalism, Islamization,
Sectarianism and Violence in Pakistan. Pakistan
1997. Baxter and Kennedy (eds). India: Harper
Collins.

Blair, Graeme, et al. "Poverty and support for

militant politics: Evidence from Pakistan." American
Journal of Political Science 57.1 (2013): 30-48.*
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Zaman, Arshad, Economic Strategies and Policies in
Pakistan, 1947-1997 in Mumtaz, Soofia; Racine,
Jean-Luc; Ali, Imran Anwar Pakistan: The Contours
of State and Society, OUP 2002 (chapter 8, pg 155 -
Social and Economic
10 187).
Development
Easterly, William (2001) Political Economy of
Growth Without Development World Bank. *

Banerjee, Abhijit V., and Lakshmi Iyer. "History,

institutions and economic performance: the legacy
of colonial land tenure systems in India." (2002).*
The Primacy of
11 Rodrik, Dani. "Institutions, integration, and
Institutions
geography: In search of the deep determinants of
economic growth." Modern Economic Growth:
Analytical Country Studies (2002).*

Alavi, Hamza. Pakistan: Women in a Changing

Society, Economic and Political Weekly, 23: 26
(1988), 1328-1330.*

Marsden, Magnus. Women, Politics and Islamism in

Northern Pakistan. Modern Asian Studies, 42: 2-3
Human Rights and
(2008), pp. 405-429.*
12 the Question of
Gender in Pakistan
HRCP. 2011. Freedom of Thought, Conscience, and
Religion. State of Human Rights in Pakistan. 8192

HRCP. 2011. Freedom of Expression. State of

Human Rights in Pakistan. pp. 93-108.

13 TBA Readings TBA

Students are
expected to highlight
Revision and Discussion of How to Attempt the Final
14 problem areas and CLO4
Exam
bring questions to
class

Supplementary Readings

Taylor, David. Parties, Elections, and Democracy in Pakistan, The Journal of Commonwealth & Comparative Politics, 30: 1, (1992), pp. 96-115.
This reference text provides a chronological overview of the important events for the time covered in this course.

Examination Detail

Yes/No: No
Midterm
Exam
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Yes/No: Yes
Combine Separate: Combine
Final Exam
Duration: 60 minutes
Exam Specifications: TBA

Prepared by: Adeel Shafqat

Date: 1ST September 2017