Pakistan Left Review Then and Now

by Cheema, Nadir; Lyon, Stephen M.

• ISBN13: 9789697341535
• ISBN10: 9697341532
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2023-12-04
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Nadir Cheema, Lecturer in Economics, SOAS University of London,Stephen M. Lyon, Professor of Anthropology and Head of Educational Programmes, Aga Khan University Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations

Nadir Cheema teaches economics at the SOAS University of London. He is on the book reviews editorial team of Bloomsbury Pakistan, which focuses on academic book in the area of Pakistan Studies. He contributes on Pakistans economy for the English daily, Dawn.

Stephen Lyon is the Professor of Anthropology and Head of Educational Programmes at the Aga Khan Universitys Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations. He has carried out extended ethnographic research on rural and urban Pakistan and is the author of Political Kinship in Pakistan: Descent, Marriage and Government Stability (Lexington Books, 2019).

Table of Contents

Preface

Stephen M. Lyon and Nadir Cheema
Introduction: A Leftist Intellectual Journal

Salima Hashmi
A Distant Encounter: PLR Days and Early Art Writing

Rehman Sobhan
Identity and Exclusion: The Making of Three Nations

Mubarak Ali
A Brief Biography of Iqbal Khan (co-editor of Pakistan Left Review)

Pakistan Left Review-Autumn, 1968

Editorial
A View from the Left

Aziz Kurtha
An Exclusive Interview with Z. A. Bhutto

Tariq Ali
An Open Letter to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

Anwar Khan
Book Reviews

Herbert Marcuse
Ethics and Revolution: Extracts from Bengali and Urdu translations

Faiz Ahmed Faiz
Poem (Published in PLR for the first time)

Why do you want to start a journal about Pakistan in London?

Pakistan Left Review-Spring, 1969

Editorial
Pakistan Usurped

Rehman Sobhan
The Economic Basis of the Current Crisis

Iqbal Khan
On the Question of East Pakistan

People's Demands

Aziz Kurtha
The 1962 Constitution: A Critical Appraisal

Despatches from Pakistan

Pakistan Left Review-Summer, 1969

Editorial
Volcano Tranquilised Save Pakistan from Being Mortgaged!

Iqbal Khan
Our Enemies and How to Destroy Them: Literacy and Population Explosion

Aziz Kurtha
Book Review: The Myth of Independence

N. H. Islam
Living in Pakistan (A Sociological Report)

Marx's Concept of Man

Pakistan Left Review-Autumn, 1969

Editorial
Shape of Things to Come

Mahmood
Our New Educational Policy

S. Niaz
The Stranglehold of 'Aid'

Hamza Alvi & Amir Khusro
On Military Aid

Salima Hashmi
Reflections on Art

Pakistan Left Review-Spring, 1970 (FAREWELL ISSUE)

Editorial
A Farewell to Our Readers

Iqbal Khan
Has the Revolution Arrived in Pakistan?

Feroz Ahmed
Leftist Debate in West Pakistan

Faiz Ahmed Faiz and Mao Tse-Tung
Two Poems

Interviewed by Tariq Ali
The Life and Thoughts of Bhashani

Ahmed Bashir
Festival of the Oppressed

M. S. Sfia
Book Review: Islam and Capitalism by Maxime Rodinson

The Military Takeover in America by an American Observer

Kamran Asdar Ali
Afterword

Appendix: Spring 1969
Who's Who is CIA?

PLR Issue Autumn, 1968
Facsimile of first three pages

Note of permission by Aziz Kurtha

Photos of the editors of the PLR

A note to get PLR Subscription

Index