Farzana Shaikh is an Associate Fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs in London and the author of Community and Consensus in Islam: Muslim Representation in Colonial India, 1860-1947. A well known commentator on Pakistan, she has lectured and written widely on the country in the course of an academic career that has included positions in the UK, the US and Europe.
"Intellectually acute, impressively researched, and strongly
argued."-Anatol Lieven The American Prospect
"Thought-provoking... Those interested in helping shape the
country's future will come away understanding why now is the time
to move on with clarity."- Middle East Journal
"A well documented, provocative study...of considerable interest to
scholars and foreign policy specialists."-Choice"Shaikh's knowledge
is encyclopedic, her methods of analysis simple but intense, her
writing beautifully lucid there is nobody better to explain what
Barack Obama calls the most dangerous place in the world."-Ahmed
Rashid, author of Descent into Chaos: How the War Against Islamic
Extremism is Being Lost in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central
Asia
"[Afghanistan] is also -- as Farzana Shaikh makes clear in her
brilliant new book, Making Sense of Pakistan -- just another victim
of the batty, contorted rivalry between New Delhi and Islamabad for
subcontinental influence."- The Guardian
"A scholarly and erudite study of the competition to define and
establish a "national" identity for Pakistan."- H-Asia
"Farzana Shaikh has analyzed the contemporary dilemmas and
predicaments of Pakistan with skill and finesse. By far the best
book I have read on our neighboring country in recent years."-Owen
Bennett Jones, author of Pakistan: Eye of the Storm
Erudite and persuasive . . . this is a book that should be read.� �
The New Indian Express
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