The author is Managing Editor, Folio Books, and coordinator of the Humanities and Social Sciences (HASS) module at Aga Khan University Medical College, Karachi. His website is www.saeedhusain.com
While the digitisation process of the Lahore and Taxila museums is helping preserve thousands of priceless artefacts, it has also revealed the bureaucratic failures, institutional neglect and governance challenges that have long threatened the nation’s cultural heritage.
Sandeman died in January 1892, days before turning 58. After months of ill-health and a summer in Scotland, he returned to the Subcontinent in November 1891, spending Christmas in Quetta before travelling to Las Bela — his final resting place.
Not only did he deny the West Indies a sure win, but his negotiations with the Board would become the precursor to pay disputes between Pakistani cricketers and the board for years to come.
Research on the 1935 Quetta earthquake is shockingly limited, where anthropologists and historians can study colonial policies and particularly as they stand with reconstruction efforts following the disaster.
