Names
Subtitle: A Study of Personal Names, Identity, and Power in Pakistan
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780199402588
Subjects: Names, personal, asia
Description: "This book is the first scholarly study of personal names in Pakistan and is based on an analysis of names from all over the country, both from the early years and from the contemporary period. The only earlier study was by Sir Richard Temple in 1883 and the data for that came from East Punjab, now in India. Thus there was only one chapter on Muslim names in it. This work describes beliefs about names, onomastic practices, and changes in names during the last sixty years or so."