The Indus Saga and the Making of Pakistan
Pakistan has been variously described as an historical aberration, the result of a split electoral mandate, the outcome of a divide and rule policy, or the product of one man's intransigence. Whatever the basis of the assumption, Pakistan has always been considered a recent breakaway from India: 'India' implying the vast land mass from Kabul to Cape Comorin and from Assam to Balochistan. In questioning the assumption, Ahsan seeks to establish that the north-west of the subcontinent, comprising the valley of the Indus and its major tributaries, has always been distinct from India. Drawing evidence from legend, folklore, poetry, ritual, and social norms, from ancient times to the modern age, The Indus Saga questions and rejects many of the widely-accepted myths of subcontinental history. The facts presented in this book highlight the dichotomy between the Indus region and India. They show the almost unbroken continuity of a distinct social and political order, bearing testimony to the primordial and restless impulse of the Indus region to be a distinct and independent nation-state. They also bring out, in bold relief, the identity of the Indus person (the modern-day Pakistani) as distinct from the Arab, the Central Asian, the European, and the Indian. They all converge, finally, in the establishment in 1947, of Pakistan.
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Separating Indus from India is like separating milk and butter.
The book matter is concoction, written to please some distorted minds.
Pakistanis must accept the truth that Pakistan had no history before its formation, unlike Iran, Iraq etc. Even the word Pakistan is coined one.
This concept will help them to look forward in future.
An Excellent work by Aitzaz Ahsan. Master piece of historical facts and brief explanation that why Indus civilization was different then the rest of Hindustan !!
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