The Book
The Book: Language and Politics in Pakistan is a study of the links between language, politics and ethnicity in Pakistan. Rahman reviews the history of all the major ethnic and language movements that have occurred and still continue in Pakistan today, such as the Bengali, Sindhi, Pashto and Punjabi movements. In addition, he also discusses smaller scale movements. This book is a very important contribution to the post-Independence history of Pakistan and by extension to the specific social configurations of the Indian subcontinent
The Author(s)
Tariq Rahman is presently Quaid-i-Azam Professor at the National Institute of Pakistan Studies, Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad. Tariq Rahman has published about eighty research papers and nine books. He has lectures and contributes seminar papers in Pakistan and abroad.