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Subject(s)

• Karachi (Pakistan)—History [Browse]
• Karachi (Pakistan)—Social life and customs [Browse]
• Karachi (Pakistan)—Intellectual life [Browse]

Related name

• Khuhro, Hamida [Browse]
• Mooraj, Anwer [Browse]

Notes

Previously published: 1997.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-382).

Contents

• How it all began ; The making of a colonial port ; The halcyon years ; The capital of Pakistan / Hamida Khuhro
• The founding fathers of modern Karachi / Muneeza Shamsie
• An economic perspective / Shahida Wizarat
• The growth of a metropolis / Arif Hasan
• More than half a century of trends / Noman Ahmed
• The literary scene : English I / Tariq Rahman
• The literary scene : English II / Navid Shahzad
• The literary scene : Urdu / Muhammad Ali Siddiqui
• The literary scene : Sindhi / Hamida Khuhro
• Saddar of the fifties and sixities / Asif Noorani
• An ever expanding canvas / Marjorie Husain
• Comedy, tragedy, and realism / Hameed Zaman
• A close-up of cinema, radio, and television / Asif Noorani
• Karachi before Prohibition ; Being young in the fifties / Anwer Mooraj
• Millennium Karachi / Ayela Khuhro.

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ISBN

• 0195475194 ((hardcover))
• 9780195475197 ((hardcover))

LCCN

2010341197

OCLC

641463508

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