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Ilhan Niaz is the author of The State During the British Raj: Imperial Governance in South Asia, 1700-1947 (OUP, 2019), Old World Empires: Cultures of Power and Governance in Eurasia (Routledge/ OUP, 2014), The Culture of Power and Governance of Pakistan, 1947-2008 (OUP 2010), and An Inquiry into the Culture of Power of the Subcontinent (Alhamra, 2006).

The Culture of Power and Governance of Pakistan was awarded the best non-fiction book of 2010 at the 2011 Karachi Literature Festival and has also received the Higher Education Commission of Pakistan award for best book in social sciences, arts and humanities for 2010.

Old World Empires: Cultures of Power and Governance in Eurasia received the HEC award for best book in social sciences for 2013/ 14.

The State During the British Raj received the 2021 HEC award for Best Book publication.

He is also the recipient of the Kodikara Award for 2013 (RCSS, Colombo) and has, in connection with that award, authored a monograph on Understanding and Addressing the Administrative Aspect of the Civil-Military Imbalance in Pakistan.

He is presently a Professor of History at the Quaid-i-Azam University, Islamabad.

Dr. Ilhan Niaz's Twitter:   / ilhanniaz  

00:00 Why is Good Governance Important?
01:54 Central Thesis of the Book
06:24 Which Empires Ruled South Asia before 1947?
07:02 What are Continental Bureaucratic Empires and Culture of Patronage?
11:12 Ideocratic Complex
15:55 How People Respond to Bad Governance--Apathy, Insularity, Brain Drain
21:02 How and Why Emperors Use Religion to Justify Bad Governance?
22:39 Why is the Culture of Governance not Changing?
25:45 When did Democracy Arrive in England?
28:07 Why did India Become a Democracy and Pakistan did not?
34:32 Initial Failures of Pakistan
38:27 Why was Objectives Resolution 1949 Harmful for Pakistan?
40:00 What is a Secular State?
44:18 What is Wrong with the Civil Service of Pakistan?
48:27 What is Wrong with Central Superior Services (CSS) Examinations?
53:16 Mediocrity and Misogyny at Civil Services Academy, Lahore
56:42 Why are Self-Help books Pure Nonsense?
01:01:20 Which Books Should Civil Servants, Policy-Makers, Politicians, and Statesmen Read?
01:03:36 The Importance of Classical Literature in Every Discipline
01:05:12 The Roots of the Plot Culture of the State and Military of Pakistan
01:12:24 Why do Poor People Pay more Taxes than the Rich?
01:19:11 Will the “Arbitrary Culture of Governance” Decrease in Pakistan?
01:22:30 Why aren’t People of Pakistan Protesting Against Bad Governance?

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