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SS102: Pakistan Studies

Summer 2021

Course Catalog Description

This course is an introduction to the history of Pakistan. The topics follow a set of related themes, posed as questions, which showcase some of the
seminal research that has been done on 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 Pakistan’s 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.

The first four sessions of the course deal with the formation of Pakistan questioning its origins and the historical exigencies that preceded it. Sessions
5 & 6 then focus on various aspects of Pakistan’s colonial legacy and political structures by looking at the nature of the state, the power of the
military and national resistance movements in the country. Sessions 7 & 8 begin with the civil war of 1971 and move on to explore gender relations
in the country. The last 2 sessions provide an overview of Pakistan’s foreign policy and the various regional and religious conflicts in Pakistan. The
course will be delivered solely online for summer 2021.

Instructor Anam Fatima

Room No. 239-J Old Hss wing Academic Block
Office Hours TBA
Email anam.fatima@lums.edu.pk
Telephone
Secretary/TA TBA
TA Office Hours
Course URL (if any)

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
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Course Offering Details
Lecture(s) Nbr of Lec(s) Per Week 5 Duration 75 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 x Duration Not Applicable
Week

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 country’s 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, Assignments Assignments
CLO2 PLO6 Cog-3 Instruction, Assignments Reflection Paper, Final
CLO3 PLO6 Cog-4 Instruction, Assignments Assignment, Final, Films, CP
CLO4 PLO10 Cog-4 Instruction, Assignments Assignment, Response papers,
Final

Grading Breakup and Policy

CP: 5%
Attendance: 10% (3 allowed absences)
Assignments: 45% (three take home assignments 15% each)
Final Exam: 40% (take home final)

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

Week Topic Reading Primary material (to be Related CLOs &

No. discussed in class) Additional Remarks

Jalib, Habib. Pakistan ka matlab kia (What does

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

Jalal, Ayesha. “Conjuring Pakistan: History as Sharma, H.D. (ed). Jawaharlal

Where can we locate Official Nehru on ‘The Cabinet Mission
the origins of Imagining.” International Journal of Middle East Proposals’; Mohammad Ali
2
Pakistan? Studies, 27, 1 (1995), 73-89. * Jinnah on ‘Now Direct Action’;
Lord Wavell. The Interim
Government. All speeches
reproduced in pp. 364-374*

Talbot, Ian. ‘The 1946 Punjab Elections,’ Modern

Who “voted” for Asian Studies, 14: 1 (1980): 65-91. *
Pakistan and why?
Bose, Neilesh. ‘Purba Pakistan Zindabad: Bengali
Visions of Pakistan, 1940-1947.’ Modern Asian
Studies, (2013), pp. 1-36.
3

Khan, Yasmin. ‘Introduction: The Plan,’ The Great

What alternative Partition: The Making of India and Pakistan (New
Assignment: A Documentary
readings of Partition Haven: Yale University Press, 2007). *
and short stories: “Toba Tek
enable us to study Singh” and “Khoal Doa” by
4 Pakistan from Dhulipala, Vinket Introduction in “Creating a New Saadat Hassan Manto.
different lenses Medina”

Partition Oral Stories by Urvashi Butalia

Alavi, Hamza. ‘The State in Post-Colonial

Societies: Pakistan and Bangladesh’, New Left
Review, no. 72 (1972): 59-81. * (to be read from p.
After Independence,
63 onward).
what does it mean to
5 call Pakistan a
Ali, Imran. ‘Historical Impacts on Political Economy CLO1, 2 & 3.
“postcolonial state”?
in Pakistan’, Asian Journal of Management Cases,
1:2 (2004).
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6 How can you explain Jalal, Ayesha. ‘Constructing the State,’ State of
Pakistan’s constant Martial Rule: The origins of Pakistan’s Political
bouts of Military Economy of Defence. (Cambridge: Cambridge
Rule? University Press, 1990) *

Waseem, Muhammad. “Causes of Democratic

Downslide”.

Shaikh, Riaz Ahmed. ‘1968 – was it really a year of

social change in Pakistan?’ Sixties Radicalism and
Social Movement Activism: Retreat or Resurgence.
Bryn Jones and Mike O’ Donnell (eds.) (London:
Anthem Press, 2010), pp. 73-88. *

Saikia, Yasmin. “Creating the History of 1971.”

Women, War and the Making of Bangladesh:
Remembering 1971 (Duke University Press, 2011), USAID official’s eyewitness
Examining the legacy
pp. 45-133. * account (March 1971)
of the civil war of 1971
7
Jalal, Ayesha. Chapter 5. “Toward the Watershed of White Paper on the
1971” in The Struggle for Pakistan. Disturbances in East Pakistan

M. A Naseem. Education and Gendered Citizenship

The Women question in Pakistan, pp. 69-81 (reading begins from
“Women and the Legal Discourse in Pakistan on
p.69)*
8
Alavi, Hamza. Pakistan: Women in a Changing
Society, Economic and Political Weekly, 23:26
(1988), 1328-1330.

Imran, Rahat and Munir, Imran (2018). Defying

Marginalization: Emergence of Women’s
Organizations and the Resistance Movement in
Pakistan: A Historical Overview. Journal of
International Women's Studies, 19(6), 132-156.
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Zahab, Mariam Abou. ‘The Regional Dimension of
Sectarian Conflicts in Pakistan.’ Pakistan:
How can we explain Nationalism without a Nation? (London: Zed Books,
religious conflict and 2002).* (available online on books.google.com)*
9
the “rise” of terrorism
in Pakistan? Jalal, Ayesha (2014) Epilogue: Overcoming Terror. In
The Struggle for Pakistan. A Muslim Homeland and
Global Politics. Cambridge Massachusetts: The
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 384 —
398

10 Foreign Policy ‘Pakistan’s Foreign Policy: An overview 1947-2004’

Briefing Paper 11, PILDAT 2004.

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

Yes/No: Yes
Combine Separate: Combine
Final Exam
Duration: Take home
Exam Specifications: TBA