Chapter 1 The war of independence, 1857-causes, events and British reaction
Chapter 2 Contribution of Sir Syed Ahmad Khan
Chapter 3 British Reforms And Muslims Responses: The Partition of Bengal, Morley-Minto And Montagu-Chelmsford
Chapter 4 The Beginnings of Indian Nationalism: Congress, The Muslim League, The Lucknow Pact, Amritsar And The Khilafat Movement
Chapter 5 Congress And the League Divided: The Delhi Proposals, The Nehru Report And Jinnah's Fourteen Points
Chapter 6 Visionaries Of the Pakistan Movement: Iqbal, The Allahabad Address, Rahmat Ali And Jinnah
Chapter 7 The 1937 Elections, Congress Rule And The Day of Deliverance
Chapter 8 British Attempts At Consensus: The Simon Commission, The Round Table Conferences, The Communal Award And The Government Of India Act, 1935
Chapter 9 The Road To Pakistan, 1940-1946: From The Lahore Resolution To Direct Action Day
Chapter 10 Independence And Partition, 1947: Mountbatten, The 3 June Plan, The Radcliffe Award And The Independence Act
Chapter 11 Quaid-e-Azam and the new Nation's difficulties, 1947-48
Chapter 12 Holding the Nation together: Negotiations with Britain, Urdu, The State Bank and the separation of 226 East Pakistan
Chapter 13 Economic Progress, 1947-1999: From Reconstruction to Privatisation
Chapter 14 Social progress, 1947-1999: Education, Health, Islamisation and women's rights
Chapter 15 The search for a constitution: From the 1935 act to the 1973 constitution and the amendments to 2018
Chapter 16 Pakistan and the Global Community: Foreign Policy, The united nations and international organisations
Chapter 17 Looking west: Pakistan's Relations with the USA and Britain
Chapter 18 Looking East: Pakistan's relations with the soviet Union/Russia and China
Chapter 19 Pakistan and Its neighbours: India, Afghanistan and the gulf states 366
Chapter 20 The arts and sport: shaping the culture identity of Pakistan 386
Chapter 21 Diversity, Languages and Sufism: building unity from difference
Chapter 22 Building an equitable Society: ideology, Justice, Citizens, Education and Health