What are some of the academic books that are #mustread to understand #Pakistan? Here are a few

A. Jalal: The Sole Spokesman + Self and Sovereignty

V. Zamindar: The Long Partition and the Making of South Asia

D. Gilmartin: Islam and Empire: Punjab and the Making of Pakistan

A few ethnographies:

O. Verkaaik: Migrants and Militants: Fun and Urban Violence in Pakistan

N. Khan: Muslim Becoming: Aspiration and Skepticism in Pakistan

M. Marsden: Living Islam: Muslim Religious Experience in Pakistan's North-West Frontier

M. Hull: The Government of Paper: The Materiality of Bureaucracy in Urban Pakistan

L. Ring: Zenana: Everyday Peace in a Karachi Apartment Complex

H. Iqtidar: Secularising Islamists: Jamaat i Islami and Jamaat ud Dawa in Urban Pakistan

Ethnographic works seems skewed towards 'urban' anthro these days. Credit to those doing research in rural or semi-rural areas (living in villages is harder).

This is just off the top of my head. Tons of good sociology and history. I have @AU_Qasmi's Ahmadis and the Politics of Religious Exclusion in Pakistan on my to read list.

Have not read @mariarshd's Dying to Serve: Militarism, Affect, and the Politics of Sacrifice in the Pakistan Army and @Mubbashir_R's The Ethics of Staying: Social Movements and Land Rights Politics in Pakistan but both look fantastic.
#mustread #Pakistan

Some more important work on Pakistan: https://twitter.com/umairjav/status/1294159118635237377?s=20

M. Qasim Zaman's work is essential:

The Ulama in Contemporary Islam: Custodians of Change

Islam in Pakistan: A History

V. Dhulipala: Creating a New Medina: State Power, Islam, and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India

F. Devji: Muslim Zion

K. Asdar Ali: Surkh Salam: Communist Politics and Class Activism in Pakistan, 1947-1972