Afghan Labour, Colonial Borders: Regulating Migration in British and Princely India
Colonial India depended on Afghan migrant labour, at the same time as it regulated and expelled them in its border-making projects.
Degrowth Remains a Slogan
Though illuminating key debates, Jason Hickel’s recent case for degrowth falls short of its global objective – with not enough to offer regions like South Asia.
Art Against Imperialism in ’80s Pakistan: A Photo Essay
Pakistani leftist artists were not only opposing Zia-ul-Haq’s military rule but also challenging similar US-backed dictatorships around the world.
Manufacturing Soldiers
In a book that breaks new ground in scholarship on Pakistani militarism, Maria Rashid explores how the Pakistan Army manages emotions like grief, pride and fear among foot soldiers and their families.
Language for Liberation: The Class Struggle Behind Ekushey (21st) February
February 21, 1952 remains one of the most significant dates in the history of Bangladesh, a landmark day in the context of the 1971 liberation war. To understand how the Bhasha Andolan (Language Movement) became a mass uprising, we must look at the class struggle that led up to the movement.
Pakistan’s One-Percent
A review of Rosita Armytage’s Big Capital in an Unequal World: The Micropolitics of Wealth in Pakistan.
The Sindhiyani Tehreek: Revolutionary Feminism in Sindh?
With the revival of Pakistan’s feminist movement, Memon recovers one of the country’s less-appreciated women-led organizations—one rooted in the peasantry, not the urban middle-class.
Pakistan’s First Climate Prisoners: Baba Jan & Affectees of the Attabad Disaster
Baba Jan and his comrades, Pakistan’s first climate prisoners, have led the charge for climate justice, ecological protection, and self-determination for over a decade.
The Discolouration of “Green Growth” in Pakistan
As “Green Growth” gains popularity among a range of political actors, a critique of the agenda’s growing currency in Pakistan and its worrying alliance with capitalist “development”.
Green, Green Rocky Road: The Perils of Greenwashing Pakistan
By rendering it a “technical problem”, Pakistan’s “greening” initiatives only exacerbate the country’s environmental crisis.
Narrating a People’s History of 1971
A review of Anam Zakaria’s 1971: A People’s History from Bangladesh, Pakistan and India.