Rafida Nawaz

Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan · International Relations

simmer issue of Kanpur Philosophers

In growing consumerist societies, advertising is one of the strongest tools the postmodern age has produced for controlling and manipulating the masses. This study aims at revealing the ideologies embedded in a purposively-selected sample of two YouTube adverts of the Defence Housing Authority in Multan and Bahawalpur. Employing as groundwork Fouca...

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Proceedings of two days national seminar on 75 years of Parliamentary Democracy in India organised by Faculty of Law Maharaj Balwant Singh Post Graduate College Gangapur Varanasi India

The impact of the political imbroglio involving Russia and Ukraine is complex and multi-layered. The proximity of Kiev and Moscow raises questions about the nature of relations between Ukraine and the West, which plays a vital role in managing the conflicts around the world to shape the future of the nations in political and economic dimensions. Th...

An internationally Peer Reviewed and Refereed Journal of History, Indology, Archaeology, Epigraphy, Numismatics, Modernity & allied disciplines 2022 volume

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Indigeneity is a powerful means of representation and also a contested idea in the modern postcolonial world; used as a tool of resistance and conscious socio-political strategy to express collective identities. The assertion of singularity is the starting point of the path to achieve identity rooted in unique history, distinguished culture, religi...

Water is a vital resource for 1.9 billion, 24.89 Percent of the total world population residing in the South Asian states and the geopolitics of the region primarily is hydro-politics. The water geography of the region comprises river basins like the Indus, Ganges, Meghna, and Brahmaputra, acting as capillaries responsible for the flow of life in t...

Rise of China, its bend towards Russia, its increasing sphere of influence in Asia and Africa has posed perplexing questions like will the four decades of cooperation between USA and China end in great War; will the drive to maintain/attain hegemony be the guiding principle for USA and China; and what will be the impact of strife on states like Pak...

The poetic approach to constructing social reality is a significant source of reflection on the livedexperience of voiceless ordinary men and women. Poetic expression becomes a source of power andresistance expressed through language. Social reality expressed in poetry constructs a vision of historybeyond time. The civilizational heritage of Multan...

The USA acclaims to be a multicultural land of opportunity assimilating migrant settlers since its inception,but another facet of the USA is a culture of white racial supremacy, and orthodox beliefs regarding blacks, women, religiousand ideological others. The policy of constructing the ideological other, i.e., communism, was the highlight of cold...

State is considered to be the custodian of rights of vulnerable segments like women. Neo liberal ideology advocates women's participation in the economic arena, yet it resists state role in the economic sphere for protection of the "second" gender. State role for protection of women is equally intolerable for the custodians of tradition. Ideology o...

I am glad to present the 8th volume (Joint issue of Summer and Winter-2021) of “Kanpur Historiographers”, a peer reviewed International Journal of Historical Studies and Research; published biannually by “New Archaeological and Genological Society” Kanpur, India to all the stakeholders of our esteemed journal. It’s a second consequent year of CORON...

Volume 8 issue 2, July- December 2021 containing 46 papers on different themes of social sciences and Law

Eurocentric imperialism incorporated the non-European geographical region in the economic and political milieu of Europe and made the world a global whole. To Mitchel Foucault, the process started with endo-colonization of European people and advent of rational governance exercises experimented first in European states and later exported to non-wes...

The research aims to examine the democratic ideals ofparticipatory, inclusive democracy with "strong public" andclear means of interest articulation, in contrast to transitional, "delegativedemocracy," with local and national dynasties and the marginalized public.Employing the concept given by John Dewy, Jurgen Habermas, NancyFraser, Samuel P. Hunt...

No other piece of cloth has ever caused this much debate as the headscarf. This paper examines the headscarf debate in three European countries i.e., France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Firstly, the headscarf affair depicts different state policies developed and implemented by three countries, to integrate the Muslim immigrants. Secondly, an a...

Index Kanpur Philosophers volume-VIII, issue-I, January – June 2021 1. Genesis and growth of Archaeology in Kerala Dr. G. Premkumar Co-operative Arts and Science College Madayi, Kannur India 01 2. Child Marriage And The Grass Root Reality: An Empirical Study of Female Gender Discrimination in Two Villages of West Bengal Dr.Moumita Gupta Dr. A.P....

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CONTENTS A P Alavi Bin Mohamed Bin Ahamed Maqdums of Ponnani: The Pioneers of Islamic Higher Education Systems in Medieval Kerala 73 Aditi Govil The European Merchant as ‘the other’ of the ‘Indian’ Merchant: Reorienting the Mughal Court's Perception and Policy response in the first half of seventeenth century 87 Fatima Tuz Zuhra Rahman Communal Acc...

Kanpur Historiographers is an Internationally peer-reviewed and refereed Journal of History, Archaeology, Indology and Numismatics. The New Archaeological & Genological Society Kanpur (India) has been publishing it for the last few years. The Editorial Board is highly obliged to the academic cooperation by the authors, students, and readers. We tha...

Kanpur Historiographers is an Internationally peer-reviewed and refereed Journal of History, Archaeology, Indology and Numismatics. The New Archaeological & Genological Society Kanpur (India) has been publishing it for the last few years. The Editorial Board is highly obliged to the academic cooperation by the authors, students, and readers. We tha...

The paper aims to trace the genealogy of debates and discourses in the field of Social Science with special emphasis on discipline defining debates in International Relations. Briefly discussing the debates of collective and individual; universal and particular going on in various disciplines of Social Sciences, the prime focus of study will be the...

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Post-Cold War years has witnessed many shifts, breaks and rupture in theorizing about the state, security, and state responsibilities. Previously state was considered to be a totality; the home of a nation with the prime national objective of providing security from threats coming from outside international anarchy and economic development. As Cold...

Kanpur Philosophers Volume VI, Issue II, DEC 2019 An internationally Peer Reviewed and Refereed Journal of History, Archaeology, Indology, Epigraphy, Numismatics, Law, Literature & allied disciplines of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences NEW ARCHAEOLOGICAL & GENOLOGICAL SOCIETY 125/L/89, FF104, GOVIND NAGAR, KANPUR U.P. INDIA 208006 https://...

Issue two volume six of Kanpur Historiographers is here for common readers, researchers and a vast audience interested in South Asian history. From the first volume it has opted for the less traversed road of writing the history of marginalized, excluded and subjugated. Historiographer instead of taking the linear deterministic course tried to unea...

Mahatma Gandhi is quoted to say that he won't be surprised if his ideals were endorsed in other parts of the world, especially Africa. Nelson Mandela from a different time was a reflection of the dreams of Gandhi getting inspirations from his thoughts. Both these leaders lived different times, yet both of them were believer and practitioner of the...

Mainstream International Relations theory Realism emerged from the Latin American ECLA-Prebisch school (Dependencia) that enunciated the Center-Periphery paradigm; and Subaltern Studies School of South Asian Historian believing in history from below. The two paradigms are cornerstones of critical International Relations theory; emerging as response...

The paper aims to revisit the priori beliefs and presumptions of the state centric approach. i.e. the Realist paradigm that guided the statecraft and state behavior in external affairs since the time of Thucydides and Greek city states. Based on the assumptions of hierarchy in terms of power, anarchy, self help, and balance of power the Realist tho...

The paper is based on the concept of longue durée the "structural time", given by Fernand Braudel. The concept serves as priori belief of world-systems analysis. The world-systems theorists of Annales School of Historians consider year 1492 as a point of rupture in history of human beings and their geo-space. With the discovery of Americas and the...

Colonialism was a rupture in history of colonial societies where a linear historicist dimension of time and progress was introduced as a new episteme in colonial space. Colonizers not only occupied the territory but also possessed the minds of colonized who perceived themselves according to Looking Glass of Civilization. (Cooley) During the mirror...

The paper aims to revisit the story of fall of Indus-Sarasvati Civilization narrated on basis of Archaeological discoveries and explorations in Cholistan (Rohi) desert of Pakistan by Mustansar Husain Tarar in his creative expression, i.e. the Novel Bahao (the Flow). Bahao is narration of life in proximity of a river (Ghagra/ Sarasvati) that is in p...

The media is associated in critical theory with cultural imperialism. Through discourses (de)legitimated through media, norms of society are molded to construct consent for consumerism; making it a part of modern world system. The media narratives convey messages'; cutting across the geographical constraints. Cultural rigidities recede to create sp...

Wishes to all the friends, readers and subscribers of the summer issue of “Kanpur Historiographers” an International Journal of Historical Studies and Research; published biannually by “New Archaeological and Genological Society” Kanpur, India. The present issue of “Kanpur Historiographers” is mostly focused on history of modern India. Most of the...

I am happy to present the summer issue (2019) of “Kanpur Philosophers”, to the researchers, subscribers and scholars, mainly focused on various aspects of colonial and pre-independence history of India. Although papers appearing in this issue represents variety of disciplines and subject area i.e. Geography, History, Political Science, Sociology, E...

The argument of the paper is that media narratives serve the dual function of (de)legitimation. While manufacturing legitimizing consent for consumerism, media narratives delegitimize the old patterns of existence as well by penetrating deep in cognition and creating anomalous desires that refuse to take cultural rigidities as given. Media screens...

In the Post-independence years, state of Pakistan like other post-independent states, faced the dilemma of making sense of their nationhood and also converting the national state into a nation-state. The paper aims to provide a genealogical perspective of nationalist discourse(s) at play in Indian subcontinent and post-independence Pakistan. The pa...

Realism is the paradigm that provides norms of state behavior and structure of interstate relations in anarchic situations and considers power politics as a mechanism to resolve conflict, inherent in world order. Feminist perspective entered in discourses of International Relations along with other epistemological standpoints collectively known as...

Realism is the paradigm that provides norms of state behavior and structure of interstate relations in anarchic situations and considers power politics as a mechanism to resolve conflict, inherent in world order. Feminist perspective entered in discourses of International Relations along with other epistemological standpoints collectively known as...

History does not come neatly packaged in distinct periods but in order to find clarity of facts, to identify a 'regime of truth', we mark such epochs. End of the Second World War was in fact the beginning of one such period, a new phase in world affairs, in which the European state system was extended to what had previously been colonies. The centu...