Perpectives on Pakistan: Pakistan Studies Series #1 [Office Copy w/ Anwar S. Dil Signature Stamps]

(History)(Pakistan) DIL, Anwar S.; DANI, Dr. Ahmad Hasan; QADIR, Manzur; GARDEZI, Dr. Hassan Nawaz; MOHIYUD-DIN, Muhammad; BALOCH, N.A.; BROHI, A.K.; KAYANI, M.R.

West Pakastan / Abbottabad: Bookservice [Sponsored by Pakistan Studies Group], 1965. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Inches. xi, 224 [6] PP. Very Good. Item #9069

One of only 2500 stated "First Edition: May 1965" copies. Original cloth with red title stamping to cover and spine. Original "Office Copy" sticker to front cover. "Office Copy" also written in black ink on FFEP. Signature ink stamp of "Anwar S. Dil" on at least three pages. Light wear and some rubbing to spine ends.

PRE INDIA - PAKISTAN WAR OF 1965! [The India - Pakistan war of 1965, also known as the second Kashmir war, was an armed conflict between Pakistan and India that took place from August, 1965 to September, 1965.]

Anwar Dil’s Perspectives on Pakistan (1965) freezes in time a rare moment when Pakistan’s future still felt open, contested, and intellectually negotiable. Rather than presenting a single national story, the book stages a conversation among economists, political scientists, and sociologists who were willing to question the assumptions of statehood itself - how authority should be organized, whose voices counted, and whether ideology could substitute for democratic participation. What makes the volume especially significant is that these questions were posed before Pakistan’s first major national breakdown, giving the book the quality of an early diagnostic rather than a retrospective explanation. Perspectives on Pakistan is not just a scholarly collection; it is evidence of a critical tradition that existed within Pakistan’s intellectual life and a reminder that many of the country’s later crises were anticipated, analyzed, and debated long before they became unavoidable.

Price: $350.00