FULL AUDIO RECORDING
INDIA-PAKISTAN SOUTH ASIA

Listen to the full talk (above) by the author, Dr Venkat Dhulipala, where he discusses his book Creating a New Medina: State, Power, Islam and the Quest for Pakistan in Late Colonial North India.

The book examines how the idea of Pakistan was first articulated – not as a vague idea that serendipitously emerged as a nation-state, but as a sovereign Islamic State, referred to by some as ‘a new Medina’.