Open AccessDiscourse of Development
Author(s) -
Zahid Shariff
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
the lahore journal of economics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1811-5446
pISSN - 1811-5438
DOI - 10.35536/lje.1998.v3.i2.a2
Subject(s) - scholarship , politics , government (linguistics) , sociology , digging , social science , history , epistemology , positive economics , political economy , political science , law , economics , philosophy , linguistics , archaeology
The assumption that people were to be given theatre was of coursein keeping with the government fiction that people were to be givendevelopment particularly if they behaved themselves. (Wa Thiong’o,1986:41)Despite our short history, the norms of scholarship in Pakistan havealready become well entrenched: the grooves already seem so deep thatdigging ourselves out of them may present some difficulties. (One exampleof that in the social sciences generally, and political science and history inparticular, is the retelling of the major historical events and noting majortrends without offering any remarkably new interpretations).