Crafting a Pakistani 'Regional Culture': Urdu and Sindhi Cultural Histories in Lok Virsa, 1947-1980

Andrew Amstutz was a 2012-2013 AIPS Fellow and conducted research in Islamabad and Lahore for 3 months. Amstutz project makes an "important contribution to the study of Pakistan by examining the promotion of Urdu as a language of trans-regional connection and popular science in Pakistan within a longer history of Urdu promotion in South Asia, particularly in the colonial-era Deccan and Bengal."