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This is the first book-length study of the history of language teaching and learning among South Asian Muslims. It traces the history of language-teaching among the Muslims of north India and present-day Pakistan, and then relates language-learning (the demand) and teaching (the supply) to ideology (or world view) and power. It makes the point that the Muslims in this part of the world, like other people elsewhere, learned languages to empower themselves by ...
Language and Politics in Pakistan is an incisive and analytical study of the intimate linkages between language, politics and ethnicity in Pakistan. It has objective and well-argued accounts of the many ethnic/language movements that have been a significant part of the history of the subcontinent. It is an important contribution to understanding the history of post-Independence Pakistan and by extension, the social configurations of the Indian ...