Ishtiaq Ahmed
Ishtiaq Ahmed
Born (1947-02-24) 24 February 1947
Lahore, Punjab, British India
(present-day Punjab, Pakistan)
CitizenshipSwedish
Alma materUniversity of Stockholm
University of the Punjab
Forman Christian College
St. Anthony's High School
Scientific career
FieldsPolitical Science
InstitutionsVisiting Professor, Government College University Lahore, Pakistan

Ishtiaq Ahmed (Punjabi, Urdu: اشتیاق احمد; born 24 February 1947) is a Swedish political scientist and author of Pakistani descent. He holds a PhD in Political Science from Stockholm University. He is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Stockholm University.[1][2][3]

Early life

Ahmed was born in Lahore, British Punjab, in 1947.[4] He belongs to the Arain tribe of Punjabis.[5]

Books

His books include:

  • People on the Move: Punjabi Colonial and Post-Colonial Migration (2004, chapter six, "Forced migration and ethnic cleansing in Lahore in 1947 : some first person accounts").[6]
  • The Politics of Religion in South and Southeast Asia (2011, editor)[7]
  • The Punjab Bloodied, Partitioned and Cleansed (2012)[8][9] It won a prize for best non-fiction book of 2012 and the Coca Cola Prize at the Karachi Literature Festival in 2013.[10][11]
  • Jinnah: His Successes, Failures and Role in History (2020)[12][13]

References

  1. ↑ Entry at University of Stockholm Archived 5 July 2007 at the Wayback Machine with the University of Stockholm's homepage
  2. ↑ Hasan, Shazia (11 March 2023). "Bengalis were in majority, but Bangla was not made national language: Dr Ishtiaq Ahmed". Dawn. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
  3. ↑ Thapar, Karan (18 March 2016). "'Hindu, Sikh pressure led to Punjab's partition'". The Express Tribune. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
  4. ↑ "The Punjab Bloodied, Partitioned and Cleansed". Oxford University Press.
  5. ↑ Ahmed, Ishtiaq (18 April 2006). "There is many a slip betwixt cup and lip". Daily Times. Pakistan. Archived from the original on 15 July 2014. Additionally, the Arain group, to which I belong [...]
  6. ↑ Murphy, Anne (February 2005). "People on the Move: Punjabi Colonial, and Post-Colonial Migration. Edited by Ian Talbot and Shinder Thandi. Subcontinent Divided: New Beginning. Karachi: Oxford University Press, 2004. xx, 238 pp. Rs 350 (cloth)". The Journal of Asian Studies. 64 (1): 240–241. doi:10.1017/S0021911805000628. ISSN 0021-9118. S2CID 162416728.
  7. ↑ GHOSH, PARTHA S (2012). "Religion-Politics Interface". Economic and Political Weekly. 47 (2): 34–36. ISSN 0012-9976. JSTOR 23065604.
  8. ↑ Ali, Mahir (18 April 2012). "Blood on the tracks of history". Dawn. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
  9. ↑ White, Jenny (22 June 2020). "Turkey in the 1970s: The Cultural Logic of Factionalism". Turkey in Turmoil. De Gruyter. p. 306. doi:10.1515/9783110654509-015. ISBN 978-3-11-065450-9. S2CID 241571497.
  10. ↑ "klf 2013 | Karachi Literature Festival". Karachi Literature Festival. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
  11. ↑ Salman, Peerzada (18 February 2013). "'Pakistan is open for business'". Dawn. Retrieved 26 April 2023.
  12. ↑ Thapar, Karan (23 March 2022). "Watch: 'Jinnah Did Not Just Want Partition, He Wanted to Dismember India'". The Wire (India). Retrieved 26 April 2023.
  13. ↑ Ahmed, Ishtiaq (15 September 2020). "How Jinnah Dismissed Congress's Minority Rights Proposals to Justify Two-Nation Theory". The Wire (India). Retrieved 26 April 2023.
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