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According to Wikipedia, Ayesha Jalal is a Pakistani-American historian who serves as the Mary Richardson Professor of History at Tufts University, and was the recipient of the 1998 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship. Family and early life Ayesha Jalal was born in Lahore, Pakistan in 1956, the daughter of Hamid Jalal, a senior Pakistani civil servant, and his wife Zakia Jalal. She is related in two ways to the Urdu writer Saadat Hasan Manto. Ayesha's paternal grandmother was the sister of Manto. Secondly, Manto's wife Safia was the sister of Ayesha's mother Zakia Jalal. In other words, the uncle-nephew pair of Manto and Hamid Jalal were married to the sisters Safia and Zakia.

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The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah, the Muslim League and the Demand for Pakistan (1987) (346)
Modern South Asia History, Culture, Political Economy (2001) (239)
Democracy and Authoritarianism in South Asia: A Comparative and Historical Perspective (1995) (228)
The State of Martial Rule: The Origins of Pakistan's Political Economy of Defence (1990) (212)
Self and Sovereignty: Individual and Community in South Asian Islam Since 1850 (2000) (197)
The Convenience of Subservience: Women and the State of Pakistan (1991) (121)
Conjuring Pakistan: History as Official Imagining (1995) (99)
Partisans of Allah: Jihad in South Asia (2008) (76)
The Struggle for Pakistan: A Muslim Homeland and Global Politics (2014) (63)
Nationalism, democracy and development : state and politics in India (1997) (58)
The Pity of Partition (2013) (37)
Alternative to Partition: Muslim Politics Between the Wars (1981) (24)
The Sole Spokesman by Ayesha Jalal (1985) (23)
Secularists, subalterns and the stigma of 'communalism': Partition historiography revisited (1996) (21)
(Sugata Bose and Ayesha Jalal (eds.), Nationalism, Democracy and Development: State and Politics in India, Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998-9) Exploding Communalism: The Politics of Muslim Identity in South Asia (2000) (16)
Towards the Baghdad Pact: South Asia and Middle East Defence in the Gold War, 19477ndash;1955 (1989) (16)
The Pity of Partition: Manto's Life, Times, and Work across the India-Pakistan Divide (2013) (14)
Inheriting the Raj: Jinnah and the Governor-Generalship Issue (1985) (14)
Nationalism, Democracy and Development (1998) (13)
The Sole Spokesman: List of maps (1985) (12)
Democracy and authoritarianism in South Asia: Frontmatter (1995) (11)
Secularists, Subalterns and the Stigma of ‘Communalism’:Partition Historiography Revisited (1996) (11)
India's partition and the defence of Pakistan: An historical perspective (1987) (9)
STRIKING A JUST BALANCE: MAULANA AZAD AS A THEORIST OF TRANS-NATIONAL JIHAD (2007) (7)
Pakistan’s Tangle: The Politics of Conflicting Security and Economic Interests (1999) (6)
A PERSPECTIVE ON PAKISTAN ’ S ECONOMIC HISTORY : GROWTH , ECONOMIC STRUCTURE AND GOVERNANCE (2013) (6)
The Oxford Companion to Pakistani History (2014) (5)
A comparative and historical perspective (2016) (4)
11. Negotiating Colonial Modernity and Cultural Difference: Indian Muslim Conceptions of Community and Nation, 1878–1914 (2002) (3)
Review Article : Post-orientalist blues: Cultural fusions and confusions (1990) (2)
Democracy and authoritarianism in South Asia: The colonial legacy in India and Pakistan (1995) (2)
Nationalism, Development, and Democracy: State and Politics in India@@@The State and Development Planning in India@@@Development Planning in India: Exploring an Alternative Approach@@@India: Fifty Years of Democracy and Development@@@Globalization, Liberalization, and Policy Change: A Political Econ (2000) (2)
Population Risk Factors for Severe Disease and Mortality in COVID-19 in the United States during the Pre-Vaccine Era: A Retrospective Cohort Study of National Inpatient Sample (2022) (2)
Oceanic Islam (2020) (2)
The Creation of Pakistan (2017) (2)
The Sole Spokesman: Glossary (1985) (2)
THE PARTITION OF INDIA AND THE CREATION OF PAKISTAN (2004) (1)
Democracy and authoritarianism in South Asia: The ‘populist’ era and its aftermath in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, 1971 to c.1993 (1995) (1)
The Struggle for Pakistan (2014) (1)
Introduction : Freedom’s open wound (2020) (1)
Gandhian nationalism and mass politics in the 1920s (2004) (1)
Identity Crisis (in South Asia) (1999) (1)
The Sub-Continent: Academic Analysis (1995) (1)
A Letter to India: In Manto's Spirit (2002) (1)
South Asian history (2017) (1)
The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah's ‘Pakistan’ and the Cabinet Mission plan (1985) (1)
The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah between the wars (1985) (1)
The Sole Spokesman: The interim government: Jinnah in retreat (1985) (1)
The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah and the League's search for survival (1985) (1)
Democracy & Authoritarianism in South Asia: A Comparative and Historical Perspective (1997) (0)
5. Jihad as Anticolonial Nationalism (2008) (0)
Intramural Hematoma and Retroperitoneal Hematoma Following a Routine Colonoscopy: An Uncommon Complication of a Common Procedure (2022) (0)
The first century of British rule, 1757 to 1857 (2017) (0)
The Sole Spokesman: Jinnah and the Muslim-majority provinces (1985) (0)
The transition to colonialism : Resistance and collaboration (2017) (0)
4. Jihad in Colonial India (2008) (0)
The Sole Spokesman: The end game: Mountbatten and partition (1985) (0)
An Intellectual History for India: Striking a Just Balance: Maulana Azad as a Theorist of Transnational Jihad (2010) (0)
The Sole Spokesman: Preface (1985) (0)
The Punjabs Role in the Partition of India (0)
A nation in making? : ‘Rational’ reform, ‘religious’ revival and swadeshi nationalism, 1858 to 1914 (2004) (0)
The Sole Spokesman: Muslims 1931. Data by minor administrative subdivisions and major administrative divisions (1985) (0)
FOUR. Pitfalls Of Martial Rule (2014) (0)
253. Clinical Presentations of Hospitalized Adult Patients Infected with SARS-CoV-2 during the Omicron Variant Surge in South Florida (2022) (0)
1857 : Rebellion, collaboration and the transition to crown raj (2017) (0)
The Sole Spokesman: Centre and province: Simla and the elections of 1945–46 (1985) (0)
SEVEN. Martial Rule in Islamic Garb (2014) (0)
Richard Edmund Ward, India's Pro-Arab Policy: A Study in Continuity (New York: Praeger, 1992). Pp. 182. (1994) (0)
TEN. Entangled Endgames (2014) (0)
History of Pakistan (2018) (0)
S11 Impact of Marijuana in Ulcerative Colitis With Nstemi Hospitalizations: Insights From National Inpatient Sample 2016-2019. (2022) (0)
IS AMYLOIDOSIS A RISK FACTOR FOR ARRHYTHMIAS IN PLASMA CELL DYSCRASIA? INSIGHTS FROM NATIONAL INPATIENT SAMPLE 2016-2019 (2023) (0)
Modernity and antiquity : Interpretations of ancient India (2017) (0)
1052. Characteristics and Outcomes in Hospitalized Adult Patients Infected with the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron Variant at a Large Healthcare System in South Florida, January 1–14, 2022 (2022) (0)
The Depression decade (2017) (0)
High noon of colonialism, 1858 to 1914 : State and political economy (2017) (0)
JINNAH AND MUSLIM INDIA (2016) (0)
Democracy and authoritarianism in South Asia: Central power and regional dissidence (1995) (0)
Democracy and authoritarianism in South Asia: Introduction (1995) (0)
Book reviews (2000) (0)
Democracy and authoritarianism in South Asia: State formation and political processes in India and Pakistan, 1947 to c.1971 (1995) (0)
Introduction (2020) (0)
THREE. Sprawling Military Barrack (2014) (0)
BOOK REVIEWS (1962) (0)
A nation in making (2017) (0)
Decolonizing South Asian history : A 70th anniversary perspective (2017) (0)
Conclusion (2020) (0)
Prologue “Speak, for Your Lips Are Free” (2014) (0)
The Sole Spokesman: Major administrative divisions (1985) (0)
Nationalism and colonialism during World War II and its aftermath : Economic crisis and political confrontation (2017) (0)
2. Jihad in Precolonial South Asia (2008) (0)
Books received (2004) (0)
A case report of severe systemic herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1) infection with multi-organ involvement after a course of oral corticosteroid treatment (2022) (0)
SIX. The Rise and Fall of Populism (2014) (0)
The state and political economy, 1947 to c.1993 (1995) (0)
The Sole Spokesman: Frontmatter (1985) (0)
CONJURING PAKISTAN: HISTORYAS OFFICIAL (1995) (0)
Reviews of Books (2003) (0)
THE DEPRESSION DECADE: SOCIETY, ECONOMICS AND POLITICS (2004) (0)
Kashmir scars (2020) (0)
Colonialism under siege : State and political economy after World War I (2017) (0)
Chapter 24. Freedom and Equality (2008) (0)
The Mughal empire : State, economy and society (2017) (0)
FIVE. Toward the Watershed of 1971 (2014) (0)
South Asian history : An introduction (2002) (0)
Book Reviews : AKBAR S. AHMED, Resistance and Control in Pakistan, Routledge, London, 1991, xx + 207 pp (1992) (0)
STANLEY WOLPERT. Shameful Flight: The Last Years of the British Empire in India. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Pp. 238. $28.00 (cloth). Two decades after Partition, the geographer (2008) (0)
The Sole Spokesman: Select bibliography (1985) (0)
Ayesha Jalal (2000) (0)
Company raj and Indian society, 1757 to 1857 : Re-invention and reform of tradition (2017) (0)
Prelude: Manto and Partition (2013) (0)
Post-colonial South Asia : State and economy, society and politics, 1947 to 1971 (2017) (0)
6. Islam Subverted? Jihad as Terrorism (2008) (0)
The Politics of a Constitutional Crisis: Pakistan, April 1953–May 1955 (1988) (0)
Saadat Hasan Manto (2016) (0)
Introduction (2020) (0)
Trends in Pakistan's External Policy, 1947-1971, with Particular Reference to People's China. (1988) (0)
Introduction: Islam is the Ocean (2020) (0)
Epilogue. Overcoming Terror (2014) (0)
Democracy and authoritarianism in South Asia: Conclusion (1995) (0)
Pre-modern accommodations of difference : The making of Indo-Islamic cultures (2017) (0)
NINE. A Geostrategic Riddle (2014) (0)
ONE. From Minority to Nation (2014) (0)
TWO. Truncated State, Divided Nation (2014) (0)
1947 : Memories and meanings (2017) (0)
The Sole Spokesman: Introduction (1985) (0)
EIGHT. Democracy Restored (2014) (0)
India between empires : Decline or decentralization? (2017) (0)
Democracy and authoritarianism in South Asia: Societies, cultures and ideologies: hybrids in contrived monoliths (1995) (0)
1. Jihad as Ethics, Jihad as War (2008) (0)
Muslim Universalist Aspirations (2020) (0)
3. The Martyrs of Balakot (2008) (0)
Democracy and authoritarianism in South Asia: Bibliographical essay (1995) (0)
The Sole Spokesman: Preface to the paperback edition (1985) (0)
Post-colonial South Asia : State and economy, society and politics, 1971 to 2017 (2017) (0)

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