Abstract
In 1947, the British Raj came to an end and the subcontinent was divided into two newly independent countries, the Muslim majority to Pakistan, and the Hindu majority to India. The former, however, was unique as a nation because it consisted of two wings, East and West Pakistan, separated by a thousand miles. In 1971, East Pakistan broke away and became an independent Bangladesh.
Pakistan’s national capital is Islamabad, and it has four provincial capitals: Peshawar, Lahore, Karachi, and Quetta. This essay encompasses Peshawar, both the historical and the contemporary, through Anglophone creative writing by Pakistanis.
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Shamsie, M. (2022). Peshawar: Past and Present. In: Tambling, J. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban Literary Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62419-8_170
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