The Historian – Online Journal of Government College University, Pakistan
Many months ago I received this link to the online journal of the Government College University, Lahore. It has an impressive editorial board and the editor, Tahir Kamran, is a respected historian whose efforts and contributions to revive the near-dead discipline of history deserve more than appreciation.
The said issue of The Historian has diverse articles including On the Making of Muslims in India Historically and Evolution and Impact of Deobandi Islam in the Punjab. And, there are some brilliant book reviews as well. The book that interested me were Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist, and M.J. AKBAR’s, Blood Brothers: A Family Saga.
I was once a student at this institution albeit for a year only. After years of state control, the recent reforms have improved the quality of instruction and of course the management. Thus the glorious tradition of the Government College shall not wane despite the awful stateof education that haunts Pakistan.
Do visit the website and browse through the pieces if history is your cup of tea.
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The strength of history is not that it never ages, its strength is that it hides the social capital,if it is not in consonance with power realm.The contradictions are mislead.We have sofar invented religion, race, caste and class.Possible there would be some search when superstructural elemets in social are discovered, that would make history transparent and objective.
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If history is his story then who am I !what is my story, where he and I could not read it different.Then deconstruct the power realm, may be of religion, political or class and caste. common narrative is history,feel it and be in it in retrospect,like a lover in passion with his beloved. not missed but searched to find.