The fascinating world of Indian History from British and Pakistani lens.

seth

From last couple of weeks I was wondering how had britishers and Pakis viewed the same sequence of events in Indian history.
Since the histories of india and pakistan are no different uptill 1947. It would be intersting to have a new some fresh air.
I Started reading some Cambridge and Oxford school books on kindle ( some of them were free). However I am not sure of what pakis are reading /writing.

I read somewhere that a lot of bull shit is taught in Pakistan esp during and after zia ul Haq's tenure. Type "Hasan Nisar - pak history" on youtube. This guy is a paki journalist and completely pissed off by pakistani historians and their anti India bias.

Can anybody share some Pakistani history books?
Eg. books like (these names are lifted from pakistan's forumias known as cssforum.com.pk. in pakistan beaurocrats are from css aka central superior services)


K. Ali
Sohail Bhatti

Pakistan Affairs by Ikram Rabbani
Constitutional and political history of pakistan by hamid Khan

Could not find even one of them anywhere on net.

cestrum_nocturnum

@seth

Do read Ayesha Jalal & Sugata Bose. It'll give an alternate and relatively unbiased view. They have been extensively quoted by Sekhar Bandhopadhyaya as well.

seth

As the mind's eye travels backwards across the wide plains of Northern India, attempting to re-people it with the men of olden time, historical insight fails us at about the seventh century B.C. From that date to our own time the written Word steps in to pin protean legend down to inalterable form. And yet before this seventh century there is ............... who have lived and died are still to be heard in the earlier hymns of the Rig-Veda. And before that? Who knows? The imaginative eye, looking out over the vast sea of young green wheat which in many parts of the Punjâb floods unbroken to the very foot of the hills, may gain from it an idea of the wide ocean whose tide undoubtedly once broke on the shores of the Himalayas.


A POPULAR AND PICTURESQUE HISTORY OF HINDUSTAN BY FLORA ANNIE STEEL

Mr_U_Turn2

history books in pakistan are total mess, they consider that
1.history of pakistan started after the arrival of muhammad bin qasim
2.before muhhamad bin qasim Indian subcontinent was submerged in water
3.muhhamad bin qasim was attracted towards Indian subcontinent after hearing the plight of Raja Dahir's daughter,
4. pakistan won all the wars with India
and even every time India violates ceasefire at border.
for more stories like this visit www.defence.pk

aamengineer

www.defence. pk )

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^only true patriots go there )

aamengineer

I use to visit that site few years ago to find what the pakis are discussing. Most of their discusions are crap and funny.

dota2riki

download Pakistan's school history books.. Easy to find

naveenkr12

pakistan's UPSC papers - you can find them here - http://www.css.com.pk/Past_Papers.htm

naveenkr12

and the forum IAS of pakistan - http://www.cssforum.com.pk/

Mr_U_Turn2

@aamengineer

agreed 99% is crap on that site, but rest 1% is quite good source for IR and even some news items are highly informative.

Afterall gyan kahi se bhi mile, le lena chahiye..