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  2. Maureen Lines - Wikipedia

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    Maureen Lines first visited Pakistan in 1980 and from then on spent her whole life in the preservation and promotion of Kalasha culture for which she was awarded the Tamgha-i-Imtiaz in 2008. [ 4 ] [ 1 ] She was co-founder of the Hindu Kush Conservation Association with Nicholas Barrington, the then British High Commissioner to Pakistan .

  3. Westernization - Wikipedia

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    Specific to Westernization and the non-Western culture, foreign societies tend to adopt changes in their social systems relative to Western ideology, lifestyle, and physical appearance, along with numerous other aspects, and shifts in culture patterns can be seen to take root as a community becomes acculturated to Western customs and ...

  4. Abdul Haq (Urdu scholar) - Wikipedia

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    [1] The ordeals of partition and the migration also adversely affected Abdul Haq's health. [citation needed] He re-organised the Anjuman Taraqqi-e-Urdu in Karachi, launching journals, establishing libraries and schools, publishing a large number of books and promoting education in the Urdu language and linguistic research in it. [5]

  5. Hasan Askari (writer) - Wikipedia

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    Muhammad Hasan Askari (Urdu: محمد حسَن عسکری) (1919 – 18 January 1978) was a Pakistani scholar, literary critic, writer and linguist of modern Urdu language. . Initially "Westernized", he translated western literary, philosophical and metaphysical work into Urdu, notably classics of American, English, French and Russian literature.

  6. Gharbzadegi - Wikipedia

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    Gharbzadegi (Persian: غرب‌زدگی) is a pejorative Persian term translated among other ways [1] as 'Westernized', 'West-struck-ness', [2] 'Westoxification'. [3] The concept describes an unquestioned imitation by Eastern cultures of Western appearance, behavior (particularly consumerism and materialism ), modes of reasoning and expression ...

  7. Jon Thares Davidann - Wikipedia

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    His residence in the multicultural milieu of Hawai'i and many travels to East Asia convinced him that traditional narratives of westernization were Eurocentric and mistaken. [ 2 ] As a result, in 2019, he published The Limits of Westernization: American and East Asian Intellectuals Create Modernity, 1860–1960 , an extended critique of ...

  8. A Short History of Pakistan - Wikipedia

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    A Short History of Pakistan is an edited book published by University of Karachi Press and comprises four volumes. The book is edited by Prof Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi and provides a comprehensive account of the history of the Pakistan region and its people from the prehistory leading to the creation of Pakistan and East Pakistan which then became Bangladesh.

  9. Europeanisation - Wikipedia

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    The process in which a notionally non-European subject (be it a culture, a language, a city or a nation) adopts a number of European features (often related to Westernization). Outside the social sciences, it commonly refers to the growth of a European continental identity or polity over and above national identities and polities on the continent.