The Great Divide: Britain, India, Pakistan, H.India and Pakistan: The First Fifty Years (Woodrow Wilson Center Press), Selig Harrison.Pakistan: Between Mosque And Military, Hussain Haqqani.Islamic Pakistan: Illusions and reality, Abdus Sattar Ghazali.Nonviolent Soldier of Islam: Badshah Khan: A Man to Match His Mountains, Ekneth Easwaran.1957 (Oxford in Asia Historical Reprints), Olaf Caroe Daughter of the East: An Autobiography, Benazir Bhutto.British Imperialism in India, Joan Beauchamp.The Murder of History: A Critique of History Textbooks Used in Pakistan, K.The Making of Pakistan: A Study in Nationalism, K.India Wins Freedom, Maulana Abdul Kalam Azad.The Duel: Pakistan on the Flight Path of American Power, Tariq Ali.Jinnah, Pakistan and Islamic Identity: The Search for Saladin, Akbar Ahmed.Pakistan’s Drift into Extremism: Allah, the Army and America’s War on Terror, Hassan Abbas.Each provides what the other may not, and they all can complement each other to give us a fuller, more closer to complete depiction of the reality of something we’re interested in learning about. These would include–besides books/textbooks–novels, movies/films, comics, letters, and so on. I also suggest that we read more than one genre of historical writing to broaden our understanding of any particular historical event or phenomenon. There are always at least two sides to every issue, and, without necessarily accepting or rejecting one or the other, we should at least familiarize ourselves with whatever is there so that our opinion is more informed. Particularly when learning about the history of the formation of a state, we should be critical of everything we read and question the motives, the objectives, and the agenda of the text. When reading history–rather, anything at all–we should remember to read as many different versions as possible so as to get a bigger picture of the topic.
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