Pakistan Studies: every topic explained
32 short explanations for Pakistan Studies, one per syllabus topic: the idea, the rules, the common mistake and a worked example. Each one links to our notes and a free test on that topic.
Cultural and historical background to the Pakistan Movement: Mughal decline and the religious thinkers
- Decline of the Mughal Empire (on the practice-test site)
- The East India Company: arrival and expansion to 1857 (on the practice-test site)
- Shah Waliullah (on the practice-test site)
- Syed Ahmad Barelvi and the Jihad movement (on the practice-test site)
- Haji Shariatullah and the Faraizi Movement (on the practice-test site)
Cultural and historical background to the Pakistan Movement: 1857, Sir Syed Ahmad Khan and languages
- Causes, course and failure of the War of Independence 1857 (on the practice-test site)
- Consequences of the War of Independence (on the practice-test site)
- Sir Syed Ahmad Khan: education and the Aligarh Movement (on the practice-test site)
- Sir Syed Ahmad Khan: religion, politics and the Two-Nation Theory (on the practice-test site)
- Urdu and regional languages (on the practice-test site)
The emergence of Pakistan: 1905 to 1939
- The Partition of Bengal, 1905-1911 (on the practice-test site)
- The Simla Deputation, the Muslim League and the Minto-Morley Reforms, 1906-1909 (on the practice-test site)
- The Lucknow Pact to the Montagu-Chelmsford Reforms, 1914-1919 (on the practice-test site)
- The Khilafat Movement, 1919-1924 (on the practice-test site)
- The Delhi Proposals, Simon Commission, Nehru Report and Jinnah's Fourteen Points, 1927-1929 (on the practice-test site)
- The Round Table Conferences and the Communal Award, 1930-1932 (on the practice-test site)
- The Government of India Act 1935 and Congress rule, 1937-1939 (on the practice-test site)
The emergence of Pakistan: 1940 to 1947
- The Second World War and the Pakistan Resolution, 1940 (on the practice-test site)
- The Cripps Mission, the Gandhi-Jinnah talks and the Simla Conference, 1942-1945 (on the practice-test site)
- The 1945-46 elections, the Cabinet Mission Plan and Direct Action Day (on the practice-test site)
- The June 3 Plan, the Radcliffe Award and the Indian Independence Act, 1947 (on the practice-test site)
- Jinnah, Allama Iqbal and Rahmat Ali (on the practice-test site)
Nationhood: 1947 to 1971
- The initial problems of Pakistan, 1947-1948 (on the practice-test site)
- The Princely States, Kashmir and the Canal Water Dispute (on the practice-test site)
- Governments and constitution-making, 1948-1958 (on the practice-test site)
- Muhammad Ayub Khan and the 'Decade of Progress', 1958-1969 (on the practice-test site)
- Yahya Khan and the creation of Bangladesh, 1969-1971 (on the practice-test site)
Nationhood: 1971 to 1999 and Pakistan in world affairs
- Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, 1971-1977 (on the practice-test site)
- Zia-ul-Haq, 1977-1988 (on the practice-test site)
- Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif, 1988-1999 (on the practice-test site)
- Pakistan as a nuclear power; relations with India and Bangladesh (on the practice-test site)
- Relations with Afghanistan, Iran, China, the USSR, the USA, the UK and the UN (on the practice-test site)
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