Between Past and Future: Selected Essays on South Asia

A contemporary of Edward Said and Noam Chomsky, Eqbal Ahmad was a scholar and public figure respected throughout the world for his deep insight, powerful writing, and principled and passionate commitments on the problems and prospects of the Third World, especially those of South Asia. Selected from more than thirty years of writing, Between Past and Future brings together for the first time of Eqbal Ahmad's most important essays, magazine articles, newspaper columns and interviews on South Asia, focusing in particular on Pakistan.