'Deconstructing' Pakistan: A Framework of People's History

What happens when a nationalist discourse falls apart? When major events after the creation of a country are explained only in terms of conspiracy because the nationalist discourse would be challenged? Does it mean the entire narrative of creating a country is flawed? In the last decade of his life, the official historian of Pakistan turned against all his writings he had earlier authored as the official view, and began to write people’s history of Pakistan. The official view regards the ‘t...