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The work, drawing on many years of participantobservationans cientific research, is l;ikely to remain the standard reference work on the history, thnograophy and belief system of Chgristians of Pakistan for the foreseeable future. The movement into Christianilty in early 20th Century Punjab, was the defining moment in the creation of new social identity for this people. The implications of the indigenous, kinship base, power structure (biratheri), remaining ...
This work, drawing on many years of participant observation and scientific research, is likely to remain the standard reference work on the history, ethnography and belief system of the Christians of Pakistan for the foreseeable future. Beginning with the sweepers' guilds in pre-Aryan Indo-Pakistan, it maps out the degradation of the aboriginal tribe in the Aryan invasions, and the pseudo-legitimation of this degradation in Brahmanism. Having ...
In July 2004 1 published my 2-volume study, The Meaning of Islamic Art, which had taken exactly 24 years to research, write, revise and seek a publisher, I had begun my study of the subject in 1980 and the final manuscript was ready in early 1994. It had taken me exactly 10 years to find a publisher for it. when The Meaning of Islamic Art appeared I was fighting for my life at the Punjab Institute of Cardiology in Lahore with slender chance of ...