Author: India. Quarter Master General's Department. Intelligence Branch
Publisher:
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Category : Pushtuns
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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Author: [Anonymus AC01682207]
Publisher: Mittal Publications
ISBN:
Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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Author: J. WOLFE. MURRAY
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ISBN: 9781033785294
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Nivi Manchanda
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110887021X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 265

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Over time and across different genres, Afghanistan has been presented to the world as potential ally, dangerous enemy, gendered space, and mysterious locale. These powerful, if competing, visions seek to make sense of Afghanistan and to render it legible. In this innovative examination, Nivi Manchanda uncovers and critically explores Anglophone practices of knowledge cultivation and representational strategies, and argues that Afghanistan occupies a distinctive place in the imperial imagination: over-determined and under-theorised, owing largely to the particular history of imperial intervention in the region. Focusing on representations of gender, state and tribes, Manchanda re-historicises and de-mythologises the study of Afghanistan through a sustained critique of colonial forms of knowing and demonstrates how the development of pervasive tropes in Western conceptions of Afghanistan have enabled Western intervention, invasion and bombing in the region from the nineteenth century to the present.

Author: Jules Stewart
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752496077
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 291

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For centuries, Pakistan's North West Frontier has been seen as a lawless wilderness, which more recently has given sanctuary to Osama Bin Laden and other fundamentalist Muslim leaders. This, the first significant book on the territory for 40 years, includes first hand accounts of life and soldiering on the Frontier since the Second World War. It also tells how the British and invaders before and after the Raj, attempted to deal with this unpredictable land of the Pathans. The Savage Border provides an in-depth, highly accessible account of life and conflict on the North-West Frontier, covering not only the century of British rule since 1849, but also events since the creation of Pakistan in 1947. The author addresses key questions including 'What makes the Pathan so warlike and belligerent to outsiders, from Darius the Great in the 6th century BC to the US Marines in the 21st century AD?' and 'Can these tribesmen ever be brought into society's fold and persuaded to give up their terrorist comrades? The author is a specialist in North West Frontier affairs, who has travelled extensively in Pakistan.

Author: Michael Kennedy
Publisher: Mittal Publications
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 394

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Publisher: Mittal Publications
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Author: James Louis Hevia
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521896088
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313

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An important new study of the information systems of the British empire and of how knowledge was used to maintain empire.

Author: Tahera Aftab
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004467181
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 619

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In Sufi Women of South Asia. Veiled Friends of God, Tahera Aftab, drawing upon various sources, offers the first unique and comprehensive account of South Asian Sufi women, from the eleventh to the twentieth century.

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Category : Geography
Languages : en
Pages : 888

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Includes the Proceedings of the Royal geographical society, formerly pub. separately.