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The book shall be an important addition to anyone’s collection on Lahore as it tells the story not just textually but also visually.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ePREFACE\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe city of Lahore will never run out of biographers. It will always, even after it has crumbled beyond habitation and become another Nineveh or Ephesus, find someone who feels inspired enough to chronicle its past and to leave for future historians a personal reconstruction however partial of its identity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerhaps the most pedantic of its historians to date must remain Syad Muhammad Latif, whose book \u003cem\u003eLahore: Its History, Architectural remains and Antiquities\u003c\/em\u003e, published in 1892, represents an almost magisterial summation of facts known about the city up to the moment of his writing. The conscientiousness with which he marshaled those facts and the manner of his presentation was not surprising, considering his training as an Extra Judicial Assistant Commissioner in Gurdaspur. Dr M. Baqir's Lahore: Past and Present came sixty years later, in 1952, and although he too derived his sources from earlier accounts and guidebooks, he broadened his references to include vernacular publications about Lahore.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSince then there have been a number of other publications, each providing modern readers with a different vision of Lahore. My earlier book Lahore: Illustrated Views of the 19\" Century for example, presented a panorama of Lahore seen through the eyes of nineteenth century visitors, primarily artists both foreign and local, both professional and amateur. I included also some work of early photographers such as Dr J. McCosh whose calotypes of the Badshahi Masjid and Maharaja Ranjit Singh's samadhi are as significant to the history of photography as the historic monuments they depict.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe only justification I can offer for compiling a second book on Lahore (beyond a filial affection for my home-city) is that during the intervening ten years since the appearance of my first book, there has been a perceptible, productive response among social historians, archivists, bureaucrats and citizens alike, a palpable and growing concern with the preservation, restoration and if nothing else documentation of Lahore's unique image. Another unexpected audience that has developed since the appearance of my earlier book is one of individual collectors, many of whom have been fortunate in acquiring early prints, watercolours and lithographs of Lahore, as my wife Shahnaz and I had done when we began collecting more than twenty-five years ago.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eProminent amongst them, and certainly the most forthcoming, has been Mr Robert Scoales, a retired librarian who despite being a Scot lives in Ealing (U.K.), and whenever he is in Lahore, takes rooms (usually No. 3) in the Orient Hotel on McLeod Road. From there, dressed in the superficial camouflage of a white shalwar-kameez, he makes forays into the streets and alleys of Lahore, looking out for anything that will enhance his already formidable knowledge about the architecture and topography of Lahore. If there is a letterbox still in use that carries the initials 'VR', of Queen Victoria before she was declared Queen Empress in 1877, Bob is sure to stumble across it. (He did. It stands in the street adjacent to King Edward Medical College.) He scours the footpaths and bookshops in search of unusual books or ephemera about old Lahore. And when he returns to Ealing, he continues his search, scanning the catalogues of specialist bookshops and postcard fairs for any material about Lahore. Bob has not only assembled an enviable collection of such valuable material but also generously agreed to its use in this publication. He carried much of it over on successive visits to be examined by me and to be scanned for this publication. For his unstinting largesse and warm friendship, I offer my deepest thanks, akin to the intensity of a dedication.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo Omar Khan, my thanks for timely information regarding the dating of certain photographs by Burke, Bremner and Bourne.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLet me also express gratitude to Mian Attique Ahmad who curated with me a memorable exhibition of Old Lahore at the Lahore Museum in March this year, to Mr Tariq Mahmood for editorial and other assistance, to Mr Khurram of RN Scanner Process House, and to Mr Zulfiqar Ahmed and Mr Suleman Qaiser for the layout and design. 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The Gujjar accounts wafted from person to person to become a confused tale of a plateau stretching flat, unbroken and treeless from the mountains north of the capital of Kashmir all the way to the deserts of Tartary. The myth was finally broken in the 1830s. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe earliest Europeans, both Britons, William Moorcroft and Godfrey Thomas Vigne, were over-awed by its sheer desolation. Both also noted that Deosai was inhabited by large numbers of Tibetan brown bear. Though the elusive snow leopard, fox, wolf and ibex prowl across it, it was the easily seen bear that became the signature species on the plateau. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut over the years all was not well for the bear. It became commonly believed that a diet of some of the bear’s body parts could cure sexual impotence, or that its body fat rubbed on arthritic joints could rejuvenate them no matter how worn out they might be. 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Separated from her family and from the place of her birth, Alys never \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eexpected that within a few years of her marriage and with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003etwo young daughters, she would also be separated from the man she loved and her only source of livelihood. When the unthinkable happened though, and Faiz was, literally, hauled off in the middle of the night, Alys did the only thing she could. True to her British spirit she pulled up her socks and got to work. She joined Faiz’s paper The Pakistan Times as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ea columnist, cycling back and forth to the office (their car had to be sold to pay living expenses), juggling her meagre income to keep a roof over her children’s’ head and fighting \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eforcefully and tirelessly to clear her husband’s name and\u003cbr\u003e get him released from prison. Within four years, they were both vindicated when the ‘Rawalpindi Conspiracy Case’ was \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003edeclared null and void and all those arrested were exonerat\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e- ed and honorably released. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThese letters are a record of Alys’s struggle and her eventual triumph. They are by turn, funny, touching, sad and inspiring. Those who knew Alys only as ‘Mrs. Faiz’ might be \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esurprised to find passages in the letters that show a poetic \u003c\/span\u003eside to her that was not readily apparent when meeting her face to face such as this passage from a letter from early on in Faiz’s imprisonment in 1951: “The weather cools day by day, and now a rich wind is blowing and the moon, half-eaten, still shines. I know it is the same with you and this gladdens my heart. (18 September 1951)”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 13\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOr this one from later on: “Lahore too is lovely nowadays. Of course there are a few unpleasant hours in between but the dust is laid low and, as you say, we are now on the last lap. Dear heart, the days will soon be over, days of wishing the time away, and who knows the tears may be patched, and the torn places hidden, and then I tell myself what we have missed we can surely make up, by giving to our girls the joy, the happiness, and fun which is their right, and the right of all others too. (22 July 1954)”. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn addition to being a reflection of Alys’s personality and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eof her vibrant relationship with both Faiz and their children, the letters are also, in their own way, a valuable record of the turbulent times in which they were written. The new \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003enation of Pakistan was still finding its way and the decade \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eof the 1950s was a particularly unsettled one. After the assassination of Prime Minister Liaqat Ali Khan in 1951, the country entered a long period of political upheaval which \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eeventually culminated in its first military government in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e1958. Faiz was incarcerated in 1951 and released in 1955. By the time he came out, his beloved Lahore and Pakistan itself had changed beyond recognition. The euphoria of independence had long evaporated replaced by a funereal gloom and despondency about the future. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlys’s letters reflect some of the turmoil taking place in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esociety while Faiz was in prison. While she observes most of this thru the lens of her domestic concerns (prices of \u003c\/span\u003eessential grocery items, concerns for the safety of her young daughters etc), she was also politically astute and this shows in her comments to Faiz.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"page\" title=\"Page 14\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis new edition of ‘Dear Heart’ has been updated and corrected and some editorial comments have been added for \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eclarity. The content of the letters remains exactly as Alys \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewrote them to Faiz. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFaiz Foundation Pakistan in collaboration with Faiz Ghar (www.faizghar.net) is happy to bring this updated edition of ‘Dear Heart’ to a new generation of readers. Faiz and Alys are long gone but the ideals by which they lived their lives are as relevant today as they were when Pakistan was born. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDr. Ali Madeeh Hashmi \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eLahore.\u003cbr\u003e March 2016. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e------------\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“Dear Heart” – The collection of letters that Alys Faiz wrote to her husband, the poet Faiz Ahmad Faiz when he was in jail from 1951-1955. 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The Mathnawi was begun around 1258 at the suggestion of a disciple, Husam al-Din, who acted as amanuensis, and though the final story is incomplete, composition probably ceased a while before Rumi’s death in 1273. The six books of the poem amount to more than 25,000 verses. Loosely structured and at times metrically rough and colloquial in style, the work pursues its way through hundreds of stories, drawn from many literary and other sources and used to illustrate the main theme, man’s predicament in his search for God.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNicholson’s critical edition is based on the oldest known manuscripts, including the earliest, dated 1278, and preserved in the Mawlana Museum at Konya. It remains the standard text and is provided with diacritical marks to assist the student. This prose translation, similarly, is intended to be an exact and faithful guide to the Persian. The commentary, planned to be useful both for specialists and others, in addition to explaining numerous textual questions, traces Rumi’s sources and cites many parallels to his ideas. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv data-trigger-id=\"5386\" class=\"wcst_on_product wcst_guarantee_box_left wcst_guarantee_box wcst_guarantee_box_key_3480_5386\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"wcst_guarantee_box_row wcst_clear\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"wcst_guarantee_box_icon\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTitle: Mathnawi Of Jalalud'Din Rumi \u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Reynold A. 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The actual letters had actually been eaten by termite when he was, when they were, both living in Beirut in exile in the 70s and early 80s. They were found after Alys passed away in a very very decrepit sort of state. They were restored and we decided to publish them as they were in Faiz's own handwriting as facsimiles and then the text next to it. We also decided to pay a visit to the cells where he was incarcerated from 1951 to 1955. And this wonderful volume is a record of his letters. It's also filled with photographs of the spaces in which he paced during those years when he was in prison and also the garden which he laid out in what is now Sahiwal jail and which carries a tablet outside which says \"Ahata e Faiz Ahmad Faiz\". So it's a documentation of very difficult years. It has photographs that were with him, of his children, the drawings sent by his children to him, the letters, the telegrams, some of the record of the Rawalpindi conspiracy case, which is what kept him in prison. It is a very rare volume put together with great love and great care.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMore about the Book:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA coffee table book compiled by Salima Hashmi (Faiz Ahmad Faiz's daughter) and Kyla Pasha, 'Two Loves' is a beautifully designed collection of Faiz's letters that he sent to his family during his time in jail. The compilation includes images of the original letters along with the text of these letters typed out for easier reading. A must have for anyone who knows \u0026amp; appreciates Faiz's works and wants to know him more and what he was going through during this difficult phase of his life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003eTitle: Two Loves: Faiz's Letters From Jail \u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Kyla Pasha; Salima Hashmi\u003cbr\u003eSubject: Biography\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9693523903\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2011\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003eNumber of Pages: 280\u003cbr\u003eDimensions: 13.5 in X 9.5 in X 1 in\u003cbr\u003eWeight: 1.96 kg\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sang-e-meel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":20781875593278,"sku":"9693523903","price":16500.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0119\/4776\/9918\/products\/two-loves-faizs-letters-from-jail-839492-175949.jpg?v=1664303700"},{"product_id":"prisoner-on-a-bus-travels-through-pakistan","title":"Prisoner On A Bus Travels Through Pakistan","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe volume is a collection of a series of Salman Rashid’s articles that were published in The News between the years 1991 and 1997.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTitle: Prisoner On A Bus Travels Through Pakistan  \u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Salman Rashid\u003cbr\u003eSubject: History\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9693515250\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2003\u003cbr\u003eLanguage: English\u003cbr\u003eNumber of Pages: 200\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Sang-e-meel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":20781882048574,"sku":"9693515250","price":3750.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0119\/4776\/9918\/products\/prisoner-on-a-bus-travels-through-pakistan-640072-329164.jpg?v=1664283518"},{"product_id":"old-lahore-reminiscences-of-a-resident","title":"Old Lahore: Reminiscences Of A Resident","description":"\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eFebruary 7th, 1924.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eMany who like myself, have read with pleasure the articles on \"Old Lahore\" which have appeared from Colonel Goulding's pen in the Civil and Military Gazette during the last two years, will greatly appreciate having these articles in pamphlet form for reference, and I hope that, in this form, the articles may reach a wider public.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eTo me these reminiscences are particularly interesting, as my own earliest recollections of Lahore somewhat hazy recollections, I must admit- go, back to 1870, and my family connection with Lahore goes back to 1846, when my father, as a young Engineer officer, occupied quarters over the Hazuri Bagh gate of the Fort. The \"Old Lahore\" of which Colonel Goulding writes is mostly of later date than this, and much of his recollections deal with things of a comparatively recent past. But our memories of what has happened even in our own times are very short-lived, and Colonel Goulding has done a great service to lovers of Lahore by placing on paper the information he has given us, more especially that relating to the European community stationed in this place. He has always taken a special interest in the early documents of our Government offices, and he has himself, by his long connection with the Volunteer movement and with the official and municipal work of Lahore, played for many years a prominent part in the social and official life of the place. There is already a road in the Civil Station named after him, and this little pamphlet will also, I hope, serve to link up his honoured name with the history of the station in which he has lived so long.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eE. D. MACLAGAN\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eWhen the first of these \"Reminiscences\" appeared in the issue of the Civil and Military Gazette date September 22, 1922, it was not my intention that they should be continued as a series, nor had I the ambition to see them reprinted in pamphlet form; but, encouraged by the hospitality of the Editor, I went on jotting down my recollections of \"Old Lahore\" in the rambling form in which they appeared from time to time in subsequent issues of the Gazette. They were written entirely from memory, except where references have been given to official records, historical works and diaries.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eNow that it has been decided to reproduce the \"Reminiscences\" in pamphlet form, they have been slightly amplified in some places, and certain articles which appeared separately have been inserted in their appropriate surroundings, e.g., the full account of Anarkali's tomb, particulars in regard to the Lawrence statue, the Badshahi Mosque and Buddhu-ka-Awa.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"s1\"\u003eTo make the pamphlet something more than a mere record of gossip about old times, chapters have been added, containing concise historical and descriptive accounts of Lahore written by Mr. T. H Thornton, B.C.S., a distinguished official of olden days, who was for many years Secretary to the Punjab Government. 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It is an intellectual history of the Persians and not merely the history of the poets and authors who expressed their thoughts through the medium of the Persian language; the manifestations of the national genius in the fields of Religion, Philosophy, and Science interested the author at least as much as those belonging to the domain of Literature in the narrower sense; while the linguistic vehicle through which they sought expression was indifferent.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBrowne wrote in the preface to the first volume of this massive work: “I had cherished a desire to write a history of the intellectual and literary achievements of the Persians, somewhat on the lines of that most admirable work, Green’s \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eShort History of the English People,\u003c\/em\u003e a work which any writer may be proud to adopt as a model, but which few can hope to rival and more to surpass”.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThis monumental work ran to well over two thousand pages tightly  packed with learning and enlivened by a rare literary grace. 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For centuries Gwadar remained a lonely outpost where ocean going vessels called from faraway lands. It was only with the beginning of the current millennium that this beautiful but neglected little fishing village came into notice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e With the commencement of the various projects under the China Pakistan Economic Corridor partnership, Gwadar is now poised to vie with places like Dubai and Singapore. While the city undergoes feverish building activity and is set for a complete makeover, we envisage an influx of visitors. Indeed, this is no erroneous belief. Over the past several years since Gwadar became easily accessible by road from Karachi, the city has seen a regular inflow of tourists. The only change now is that it waits for foreign visitors to start visiting. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter the work done by British geographers and explorers, most of it in the nineteenth century, a study of the Balochistan seaboard in general and of Gwadar in particular ended. In the past more than a century, there has been no work on this area. With Gwadar poised on the threshold of world attention, this book is very timely. It will make the perfect travel companion for anyone travelling overland from Karachi to this city of great promise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom Chief Minister Balochistan, Jam Kamal Khan Alyani,\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSome months ago, Shahzeb Khan Kakar, the Director General of Gwadar Development Authority, mentioned that he had engaged a writer to prepare an introduction to Gwadar and its promise of being a city of the twenty-first century. 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I felicitate Shahzeb Kakar for this splendid effort.\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTitle: Gwadar: Song of the Sea Wind\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAuthor: Salman Rashid\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSubject: History, Travel, Culture, Architecture\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN: 9693533380\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYear: 2021\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLanguage: English\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNumber of Pages: 144\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sang-e-meel","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40172324683961,"sku":"9693533380","price":1125.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0119\/4776\/9918\/products\/gwadar-song-of-the-sea-wind-salman-rashid-967518-295144.jpg?v=1664282001"},{"product_id":"conversations-with-my-father-moneeza-hashmi","title":"Conversations with my father - Moneeza Hashmi","description":"\u003cp\u003eFor the Reader:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo what took me so long to get this book started?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA good question!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFirstly, I am still struggling with myself, having lived in the “semi” limelight for most of my life. Partly as the daughter of a great poet; partly as the sister of a great painter; partly on management posts of the only TV public broadcaster in Pakistan; partly as the only woman to head the programming of a public broadcaster; partly as the mother of two talented and wonderful professionals in their own right. And so on and so forth.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt may be hard to believe that as time has moved on, my own desire to stand on centre stage and think, “Wow this feels great!” has diminished considerably. I prefer to manage from behind the scenes and let others in the family be in the spotlight and applaud their performances.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSecondly, this has been a private matter between myself and my father. The letters I mean. 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To make the person’s life a part of the larger life of their times. This is what I have understood of Karl Marx’s method of ‘historical materialism’, a philosophy and an ideology which guided Faiz throughout his life. It helped that Faiz \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esahib \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003elived in such ‘interesting times’ as the Chinese curse goes. The First World War, the Great Depression, India’s struggle for independence, the Second World War, the creation of Pakistan (and its later dismemberment into Pakistan and Bangladesh), Faiz lived through them all. He also tried, to the best of his ability, to engage with these world issues and, in the process, became one of its most eloquent spokespersons for a whole generation, especially in the Indo-Pak subcontinent. The cataclysmic events following the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of his beloved USSR happened a few years after he died, but I suspect he foresaw at least some of what was to come. And unlike what the cheerleaders of Capitol predicted following the destruction of the ‘Red Menace’, the world of the 21\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003est \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ecentury has only become more polarized, more dangerous and more uncertain.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 13\" class=\"page\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 14\" class=\"page\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGovernments come and go, so do wars and empires. Emperors, kings and presidents, too, rise and fall with the times but through it all humankind’s desire to rise to greater nobility and perfection persists. And poets, the ‘unacknowledged legislators of the world’ as Shelley said, are our guides and fortune-tellers. They peer into the human heart and see what lies in its depths, they can discern what lies beyond the heavens, and this is why they have always been revered and feared in equal measure. It is essential for a poet \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eto understand and reflect something universal about the human \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003econdition if they are to rise above the mundane. And great poetry requires much more. The ability to perceive and sing about the universality of all human life, both throughout history as well as in the context of the cosmos. And if one can wed this depth and breadth of vision to Love (with a capital ‘L’), as Faiz did, one can perhaps begin to touch greatness. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv title=\"Page 14\" class=\"page\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"layoutArea\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"column\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut this is an endless endeavor, as is the human struggle itself. Faiz wrote about this repeatedly. One human being, no matter how talented or hardworking, is in the end just one link in a vast chain stretching back through the mists of time all the way to the origin of Life itself. Ultimately we are all, as Newton remarked, ‘standing on the shoulders of giants’. I am a bit more fortunate than others, perhaps, to be standing on the shoulders of a giant of poetry and literature in the twentieth century and, while I am acutely aware of my own shortcomings both as a writer and as a human being, I am happy that it fell to me to bring the life of Faiz \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003esahib \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eto a wider audience. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAli Madeeh Hashmi\u003cbr\u003eLahore, March 2021\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTitle: Love and Revolution: Faiz Ahmed Faiz\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAuthor: Ali Madeeh Hashmi\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSubject: Memoirs, Biography\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN: 9693534050\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLanguage: English\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNumber of Pages: 292\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eYear: 2022\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sang-e-meel Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42411475042553,"sku":"9693534050","price":2100.0,"currency_code":"PKR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0119\/4776\/9918\/products\/LoveandRevolutionjacket-outlinecopy-654167.jpg?v=1692838171"},{"product_id":"ceramics-from-the-excavations-in-the-historic-settlement-at-bir-kot-ghwandai-barikot-swat-pakistan-1984-1992-pierfrancesco-callieri-and-luca-m-olivieri","title":"Ceramics from the excavations In the historic settlement At Bīr-Koṭ-Ghwaṇḍai (barikot) Swat, Pakistan (1984-1992) - Pierfrancesco Callieri and Luca M. 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Rossi\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAfter the very important results obtained up until 1982 in Domenico Faccenna’s\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003elargescale excavations in the Buddhist sanctuaries of Butkara I, Panr I and Saidu\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSharif I, and the excavation of the Bronze Age and Iron Age graveyards and\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003esettlements, an important change of direction regarding methodology and\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eobjective occurred when Pierfrancesco Callieri undertook the exploration of the\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eancient urban site of Bīr-koṭ-ghwaṇḍai (Barikot).\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eDespite the important results obtained at Barikot, the IsMEO Italian excavations\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003estill are, in the whole of Gandhara, amongst the few extensive diggings of an\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eEarly Historic site to be carried out after the 1960s. Indirectly, this is a proof of\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethe “vitality” of a methodology which gives priority to the three-dimensional\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003einformation that only the excavation of an urban centre can provide, and which\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIsMEO (now ISMEO) has always considered as the specificity of its\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003earchaeological missions throughout in the world.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAfter 36 years of campaigns (not counting those by Giorgio Stacul in the 1970s),\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBīr-koṭ-ghwaṇḍai, the identification of which with the ancient town of Bazira-\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBeira\/Vajīrasthāna is now certain, can be considered, together with Sirkap, the\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003emost crucial excavated settlement site in the North-West of the Indo-Pakistani\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eSubcontinent. We are pleased that this has happened not only for the work of two\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eof the Authors of this volume, two distinguished ISMEO scholars, but also\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethrough an international collaboration that is outlined by the introductory words\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eof Cameron A. Petrie and further demonstrated by the many co-authors whose\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003enames appear on the front page of this volume.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAlthough the site has been regularly published, for the pottery material we had to\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ewait more time than planned originally. In fact, the tragic earthquake that hit\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003enorthern Pakistan in 2005 had a dramatic effect on the pottery collections\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003econserved in the two godowns of the ISMEO Italian Mission at Saidu Sharif (see\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ebelow the Introduction to the volume). This circumstance would have only partly\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eaffected the possibility of homogeneously integrating the descriptive data. As\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ematter of fact, the complete dataset had been brought to the Mission headquarters\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eat the IsIAO before the event occurred.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eUnfortunately, though, following the dissolution of IsIAO by the Italian\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eGovernment authorities due to lack of funds (IsIAO was the Institute on which the\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eItalian Mission had depended from 1995 to 2012) the offices of the various\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003earchaeological missions kept in Rome were vacated. The following numerous\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003echanges of venue affected the archaeological deposits before a temporary place\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ewas found in the storerooms of the Museo Nazionale di Arte Orientale ‘Giuseppe\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTucci’, now in the Museo delle Civiltà (EUR, Rome). Meanwhile a good\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eproportion of the pottery records were lost. The event had a particular effect on\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethe records of the inscribed sherds, as narrated in the introductory note of the\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ededicated chapter.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe present volume adds to other published in the series ACT-Field School\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eProject Reports and Memoirs from the well-deserved publisher Sang-e-Meel\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePublications, Lahore. The ceramic material from the most recent excavations\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(2012-2014, Kushano-Sasanian phases) was published with Massimo Vidale in\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eviii\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eVolume II (2014): The Last Phases of the Urban Site of Bir-kot-ghwandai\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(Barikot). The Buddhist Sites of Gumbat and Amluk-dara (Barikot).\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe ceramic material of the excavations 2014-2017 (Indo-Greek and Saka-\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eParthian phases), was studied together with the contemporary phases from the\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eexcavations on the Acropolis of 1998-1999 by Elisa Iori in her doctoral thesis\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(University of Bologna “Alma Mater”, 2018), and it is pretty much ready for final\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003epublication in this same series (Special Volume 2.3: Ceramics from the\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eExcavations in the Historic Settlement at Bīr-koṭ-ghwaṇḍai (Barikot) Swat,\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePakistan (1998-2017). The Early-Historic Phases, to be printed in 2021).\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAll these important scientific and editorial results are due to the incessant activity\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eof the past and current Directors of the Italian Archaeological Mission in Swat,\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethe two Authors of this volume, who continue at the highest level the work of a\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003egreat master like Domenico Faccenna in a part of the world to which the names of\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eItaly and ISMEO are now inextricably linked.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat has been said so far brings to light how important has been the role of\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003escholars operating under the aegis of the IsMEO (1957-1995), then of IsIAO\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e(1995-2012), and finally of the reestablished ISMEO (2012-) in the\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ecomprehensive analysis of the ceramics from the first phase of excavation at Bīrkoṭ-\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eghwaṇḍai between 1984 and 1992.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMoreover, in the most recent period, starting in 2012, the assignment to the\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eMuseo delle Civiltà of all materials of archaeological interest of the\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIsMEO\/IsIAO Missions created the conditions for a global scientific\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ereconsideration to which this study (and other similar ones) will certainly provide\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003esignificant contributions. This is the area of collaboration in view of which a\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eformal agreement has been signed between ISMEO, that I have the honour of\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003epresiding over, and the Museo delle Civiltà, and also the reason why a specific\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ebudget line of the five-year MIUR Project “Studies and research on the cultures of\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAsia and Africa: tradition and continuity, revitalization and dissemination” is\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003edevoted to the reordering of the IsIAO archives.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eA final word on the close collaboration between IsMEO\/IsIAO\/ISMEO, Italy and\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethe political and cultural authorities of Pakistan and the Province of Khyber\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePakhtunkhwa. A paramount achievement was the acquisition, after a long\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003enegotiation process, of one third (5 ha) of the archaeological site of Barikot at a\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ecost of 1 million Euro in December 2109. Without the constant support of all the\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eauthorities in Pakistan nothing could have been done. I sincerely hope that\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISMEO, the authorities and the people of this important region will continue – on\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ethe model of the work that is presented here – a collaboration designed to make\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eavailable to the international community the immense riches, material and\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eintangible, that the Italian research has been able to harvest over time.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTitle: Ceramics from the excavations In the historic settlement At Bīr-Koṭ-Ghwaṇḍai (barikot) Swat, Pakistan (1984-1992)\u003cbr\u003eAuthor: Pierfrancesco Callieri and Luca M. 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Official literature of the district, written from the perspective of administrators, was a tradition but has been discontinued for various reasons for a long time. The 2022 Gazetteer of Lahore District is therefore a laudable achievement of the Deputy Commissioner Office Lahore, in attempting to not only revive this tradition but also provide official, authentic information about the district. The effort was led by Dr Atiyab Sultan, Additional Deputy Commissioner (Headquarters), Lahore who undertook it with a seriousness of purpose and academic rigour, steering it through to publication. Here I must also mention the support that the Board of Revenue has provided in reviving the tradition of publishing district gazetteers. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI am also pleased to note that while conscientious emphasis has been placed on making the gazetteer citizen-centric, it also provides the reader with useful information on public services and their access. I congratulate the team on finishing this important piece of work, and hope that the reader will find both joy and utility in perusing the contents.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"fontstyle0\"\u003eCaptain (R) Muhammad Usman Younis\u003cbr\u003eCommissioner Lahore Division\u003c\/span\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e---------------------------------------------------------------------------------\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMESSAGE FROM THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER, LAHORE \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIt was once a celebrated tradition of Deputy Commissioners in the colonial era to write and compile district gazetteers, which not only served as sources of reliable information on a district but were also a cherished legacy of their tenure. In more recent decades, with the fast pace of work and heavy burden of responsibilities, this tradition has been gradually lost. The last gazetteer of Lahore was compiled in 1915-16 and so attempting to do so in 2022 was a major challenge that we have attempted to overcome as best as we could. Fundamentally, we have tried to make it a citizen-centric document, providing details of government initiatives, departments and services for the benefit of a Lahori. At the same time we have catalogued the history, architecture, cultural heritage, flora and fauna, demography and geographical features of the district. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI am grateful to Mr Zahid Akhtar Zaman, Senior Member, Board of Revenue, for his interest and continued support of the project. I must also appreciate the team at Deputy Commissioner Office Lahore including all Additional Deputy Commissioners and Assistant Commissioners, especially Additional Deputy Commissioner (HQ) Dr Atiyab Sultan and Ms Fatima Arshad, Assistant Commissioner (UT) Lahore who worked tirelessly in collecting and compiling data from various government departments. I am also thankful to the team of experts that rendered their assistance generously to this endeavour. I hope the reader will find the end product useful and informative.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Muhammad Umer Sher Chattha \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDeputy Commissioner Lahore\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e ---------------------------------------------------------\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDuring the colonial rule of the Punjab, the district gazetteer served as a comprehensive repository of authentic information on a district, and the first gazetteer of Lahore was published in 1883-84. The gazetteer continued to be published and updated in the colonial era, especially as it served imperial aims of understanding and dominating a foreign context. The last Gazetteer of Lahore was written in 1916, when Kasur and Sharaqpur were still its Tehsils, and the population was 1.03 million. In 2022, while the land area has shrunk with the creation of new districts, the population exceeds 10 million, and the city is extremely complex in terms of its administrative needs and challenges. Compiling a gazetteer of Lahore district in 2022 was therefore a Herculean task as the city has transformed significantly in the last several decades. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWe began the task of compiling this gazetteer with trips to the bookstores and a relentless knocking on the doors of administrative departments to gather the required information. In most cases, we had to ask again, and again, and again. In a city rushing towards the future at a breakneck speed of ‘development’, very few want to stop and take stock of what was and what happened. I am grateful to Fatima Arshad, Assistant Commissioner (Under Training) Lahore who embraced the project wholeheartedly since its inception and literally worked day and night on it, bringing it to fruition. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs we engaged local historians and experts in the compilation of information, we still felt adrift putting together in administrative terms what is essentially a multifaceted district about which however much is written will remain partial and insufficient. Dr Sara Zubair very kindly assisted us in selecting the most important developments, in writing, editing, drafting and re-drafting the manuscript, in keeping us on track and ensuring that it sees the light of day. It is no exaggeration that the output is in large part a blend of the combined efforts of Ms Arshad and Dr Zubair, supplemented by the contributions of various experts and departments. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the Deputy Commissioner’s Office, I am grateful to the Deputy Commissioner, M. Umer Sher Chattha who supported the project fully and monitored its development closely. My colleagues, Touqeer Ilyas Cheema (Additional Deputy Commissioner - Revenue), Dr Mujtaba Arfat Khan (Additional Deputy Commissioner- General) and Shahid Abbas Kathia (Additional Deputy Commissioner- Finance \u0026amp; Planning), ably filled many lacunae and ensured the timely and accurate provision of information. Assistant Commissioners of the Lahore district, Sonia Sadaf, Zeeshan Nadeem, Sufyan Dilawar, Qurat ul Ain Zafar, Adnan Rashid, Mian Hamid Rashid, Asif Hussain, Laraib Aslam and Izhar ul Haq Bajwa provided us with the required information and supported the project whenever needed. Anwer Sajid, Office Superintendent, Imran Maqbool, Public Relations Officer, Syed Ali Murtaza, System Network Administrator, Saul Yousaf and Rana Salman from my office, Farooq Khan, DC Office Photographer, Atif Aslam, PA to ADCR, all worked tirelessly on this project\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA number of experts helped us with the gazetteer including Dr Ali Usman Qasmi, LUMS, who guided us with the materials on the city and also linked us with a local historian, Faizan Abbas Naqvi who has made immeasurable contributions to the project. Prof. Ayesha Jalal, Tufts University, kindly shared her advice and allowed us to use exquisite paintings of her late brother, Shahid Jalal, on Lahore. Abdul Majid Sheikh generously allowed us to reproduce material from his prolific work on the city. Dr Nadine Zubair graciously assisted us with the historical research on Lahore. Ms Saman Rai helped us with the research on the cultural heritage of the district. I am grateful to Omar Hayat Gondal for the sections on Badami Bagh and the economy of Lahore. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAfter the first draft was ready, Mr Abdullah Khan Sumbal, Additional Chief Secretary Punjab, and Capt. Muhammad Usman Younis, Commissioner Lahore Division, gave us precious feedback and suggestions for improvement. I am grateful to both for their time and valuable input. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eI know what we have achieved is a partial success. What we write will never be a complete account of Lahore; anyone who lives in the city only glimpses shades and partial views and perhaps encompassing its full reality is no longer possible. Where possible, we have tried to give details of public services being provided by the administration and the ways to access the same. Unlike the colonial gazetteers that served as an instrument of governance, we intend it to be primarily a handbook and guide for the citizen. Foremost, this is an attempt to engage, to document and to understand the transitions this city is going through, put together with as much dedication as we could muster. Had we searched for perfection, we would have been working forever, therefore I shall rest the pen and humbly say: whatever good we have achieved here is from God, the errors remain my own. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDr Atiyab Sultan \u003cbr\u003eAdditional Deputy Commissioner HQ Lahore\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e----------------------------------------------------------\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThere is a certain audacity in attempting to write a city. Not just any city, but Lahore, the City district. There will always be others who are infinitely more knowledgeable, nuanced or eloquent; others with a greater claim to the city. Yet a cursory glance at its history (or histories) will reveal countless claimants, and those are only the loud, the visible, or the powerful: there are millions of others that have made and remade the city, and continue to do so without acknowledgement. To therefore have had the opportunity to learn more and say something about this city that I have called home, is an honour. To assume that any justice has been done to the sheer kaleidoscope that it is, and the multitudes that share it, would be hubris. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis process has revealed just how little one truly knows – not just about the temporal and spatial entity that is Lahore, but also the intangible and ephemeral. The writers, artists, photographers, chroniclers, and administrators, whose work fills these pages have done their part to reveal facets of the city to us. I am truly grateful to those whose names have been referenced as well as to the numerous anonymous, uncredited others – including unsuspecting, un-named passers-by who just happened to get captured in photographs. While a great deal of research has gone into this publication, the gazetteer’s purpose is something other than a conventional understanding of research, and certain liberties have been taken. Some texts have been quoted verbatim, and it is important to clarify that the purpose is not to take credit for the authors’ work, but to present the authors’ work as their own rather than tamper with it. 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