Pippa Virdee is a reader in modern South Asian history at De Montfort University. Virdee is the author of From the Ashes of 1947, and Coming to Coventry, Stories from the South Asian Pioneers, and is co-editor of Refugees and the End of Empire.
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What is Pakistan? The name refers to a seventy-year-old post-colonial product of the bloodiest partition of territory and population that accompanied the end of British empire in South Asia. But the region of the Indus Valley has a four-thousand-year-old ... SEE MORE