Ishtiaq Ahmed (political scientist)
Ishtiaq Ahmed | |
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Born | |
Nationality | Swedish |
Alma mater | University of Stockholm University of the Punjab, Lahore Forman Christian College St. Anthony's High School, Lahore |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Political Science |
Institutions | Visiting Professor, Government College University Lahore, Pakistan |
Ishtiaq Ahmed (Urdu: اشتیاق احمد;) is a Swedish political scientist and author of Pakistani descent. He holds a PhD in Political Science from Stockholm University. He is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Stockholm University.[1][2][3]
Early life[edit]
Ahmed was born in Lahore, Pakistan, in 1947.[4] He belongs to the Punjabi Arain tribe.[5]
Books[edit]
His books include:
- People on the Move: Punjabi Colonial and Post-Colonial Migration (2004, chapter six, "Forced migration and ethnic cleansing in Lahore in 1947 : some first person accounts").[6]
- The Politics of Religion in South and Southeast Asia (2011, editor)[7]
- The Punjab Bloodied, Partitioned and Cleansed (2012)[8][9] It won a prize for best non-fiction book of 2012 and the Coca Cola Prize at the Karachi Literature Festival in 2013.[10][11]
- Jinnah: His Successes, Failures and Role in History (2020)[12][13]
References[edit]
- ↑ Entry at University of Stockholm Archived 2007-07-05 at the Wayback Machine with the University of Stockholm's homepage
- ↑ Hasan, Shazia. "Bengalis were in majority, but Bangla was not made national language: Dr Ishtiaq Ahmed". Dawn. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
- ↑ Thapar, Karan. "'Hindu, Sikh pressure led to Punjab's partition'". The Express Tribune. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
- ↑ "The Punjab Bloodied, Partitioned and Cleansed". Oxford University Press.
- ↑ Ahmed, Ishtiaq. "There is many a slip betwixt cup and lip". Daily Times. Pakistan. Archived from the original on 15 July 2014.
Additionally, the Arain group, to which I belong [...]
- ↑ Murphy, Anne. "People on the Move: Punjabi Colonial, and Post-Colonial Migration. Edited by Ian Talbot and Shinder Thandi. Subcontinent Divided: New Beginning. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2004. xx, 238 pp. Rs 350 (cloth)". The Journal of Asian Studies. 64 (1): 240–241. doi:10.1017/S0021911805000628. ISSN 0021-9118. S2CID 162416728.
- ↑ GHOSH, PARTHA S. "Religion-Politics Interface". Economic and Political Weekly. 47 (2): 34–36. ISSN 0012-9976. JSTOR 23065604.
- ↑ Ali, Mahir. "Blood on the tracks of history". Dawn. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
- ↑ White, Jenny. "Turkey in the 1970s: The Cultural Logic of Factionalism". Turkey in Turmoil. De Gruyter. p. 306. doi:10.1515/9783110654509-015. ISBN 978-3-11-065450-9. S2CID 241571497.
- ↑ "klf 2013 | Karachi Literature Festival". Karachi Literature Festival. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
- ↑ Salman, Peerzada. "'Pakistan is open for business'". Dawn. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
- ↑ Thapar, Karan. "Watch: 'Jinnah Did Not Just Want Partition, He Wanted to Dismember India'". The Wire (India). Retrieved 26 April 2023.
- ↑ Ahmed, Ishtiaq. "How Jinnah Dismissed Congress's Minority Rights Proposals to Justify Two-Nation Theory". The Wire (India). Retrieved 26 April 2023.
External links[edit]
Categories:
- 1947 births
- Living people
- Stockholm University alumni
- Swedish political scientists
- Swedish male writers
- Pakistani emigrants to Sweden
- Writers from Lahore
- Forman Christian College alumni
- University of the Punjab alumni
- Academic staff of Lahore University of Management Sciences
- St. Anthony's High School, Lahore alumni