Constructing Pakistan - pg. 3

A private archive, retrieved and inserted into the official rendering of history, has been the most potent critical weapon to unravel the departmental claims of colonial administration, but in Dastanbuuy, we must reverse the order, we must declare and prove beyond doubt, instead of suggesting not to read it literally, that it is instead a public document garbed within the language and nomenclature of the private. Thus, immediately after the rebellion, the main struggle for the Muslim elite was not to preserve the Muslim culture in the private, spiritual realm, but to forge a place within the new hegemonic order, and this movement, in my opinion, could on ly be facilitated through, the language of loyalty.