Notre Dame alumnus Yaqoob Bangash '04, a Fulbright fellow at the Mittal Institute at Harvard University, delivered this lecture on October 25, 2022, at the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He discussion on the emergence of Pakistan as a post-colonial state aligned with the 75th anniversary of partition and the 30th anniversary of the destruction of the Barbri Masjid—and as India struggles to contain communal tensions. His lecture was sponsored by the Liu Institute's South Asia Group.