This is the final research paper submitted for the course “Religion and Politics in Asia” taught by Professor Hafiz Malik, the founder of Pakistan Study Center at Villanova University. My personal interest developed in the role of religion in politics after taking this course and many years later, I taught numerous courses on religion and politics in Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan at the University of Denver.
Background: This paper is a part of a collection of old research papers (1976-1981) written as course requirements. The collection tells us a very interesting history of methods available to students to submit assignments to their professors; (a) hand-written on lined papers (b) manually typewritten and finally (c) electronically type written (no option of autocorrection or spellcheck. Whitener pen was used to make corrections). Further, these papers show language and grammar difficulties of a student who studied from Urdu-medium school and college. It was the time when no language/grammar editing was available and professors were lenient for grammatical errors.
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