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Endgame of Empire

Sultan Khan, Asia's First Grandmaster
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Ather Sultan (Author) Ather Sultan is a retired Inspector General of Police from the Police Service of Pakistan and taught public administration as a visiting faculty member at Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad for over twenty years. He holds degrees in English Literature from Government College Lahore, Economics from the London School of Economics, and Law from the University of Punjab. He is the oldest son of Sultan Khan. Atiyab Sultan (Author) Atiyab Sultan is a career civil servant in the Pakistan Administrative Service and holds a doctorate from the University of Cambridge. She is the author of A Broken Record: Institutions, Community and Development in Pakistan (2022) and has coedited the Gazetteer of the Lahore District. She is Sultan Khan's granddaughter.
"A beautifully written and important book on Sultan Khan's meteoric career. While presenting Khan's devotion to family as well as his sensational achievements, like winning three British championships, Endgame of Empire does not shy away from the forces that cut Sultan Khan's career short, like the pervasive racism and Orientalism that have distorted his legacy to this day. Endgame of Empire brilliantly elaborates the triumphs of a groundbreaking grandmaster whose strategic originality and precision toppled the best players in the World, from Capablanca to Tartakower. The annotations by one of America's top grandmasters, Sam Shankland, are accessible and instructive and help bring Sultan Khan's genius to life."---WGM Jennifer Shahade, two-time U.S. Women's Chess Champion and author of Thinking Sideways: How to Think Like a Chess Player and Win at Life "Endgame of Empire walks us through the intricacies of Sultan Khan's life and his chess playing engagements in South Asia and Europe. The book is a work of love and remembrance that records in lasting ways the life and significance of this remarkable chess player."---Robert Desjarlais, author of Counterplay: An Anthropologist at the Chessboard "A book devoted to the life, time and achievements of the legendary chess master Sultan Khan has been long overdue. It is rare to come across as captivating a story as that of Khan, who through sheer determination, skill, and brilliance upset the established norms of spatial and social distancing between the rulers and the ruled."---Ayesha Jalal, author of Muslim Enlightened Thought in South Asia
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