The book begins with account of the historical processes that led to the partition of Indian subcontinent after the fall of British Raj. In their attempt to consolidate Pakistani nation-state and secure their advantage, the in the western wing advanced argument that connected Islam,..…

The last fifty years have seen enormous changes in attitudes to sexuality in countries like the US and those of western Europe. Sex between men was illegal in England, for example, until 1967: today, British LGBT people have something approaching legal equality with straight and cisgender..…

[T]he war’s advocates subsumed US history within longer, racial trajectories of “Anglo-Saxon” history which folded together US and British imperial histories. The Philippine-American War, then, was a natural extension of Western conquest, and both taken together were the organic..…