Pakistani Culture ―Facts and Myths

Abstract

Pakistan came on the world map in 1947 but its land and people had lived for centuries by norms, traditions and rituals of the society--- which in technical term and called culture and which are enshrined in the history of the sub-continent.

Culture is a product of history. It carries in it dictating imperatives of both time and space in cognitive sense. Cultural blossoming cannot be discerned without taking into account racial heterogeneity in the distant past nor can it be separated from the geographical impact on a given society. The Dravidians, the Aryans, the Mohanas have left impeccable marks on the customology of the living people of this sub-continent. The Indus, the Ganges, the Brahamputra, Sundarbans, Rajisthan, the Himalayas, the food baskets of river fed deltas of Doab, Punjab, Bengal and Narbada Valley--- all contributed to the making of the sub-continental man Religions play significant role in human thought and action. Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity and Islam all made continental life rich in urbanity. Equally important in the making of sub-continental culture are the neighbouring societies of both Iran and Turan, wherefrom human migration has been trekking down over the ages for food and shelter to the plain lands of South Asia. While defining culture, we must, therefore, take the roots and seeds of the society. . . .