Author: Sir James McCrone Douie
Publisher: Cambridge : University Press
ISBN:
Category : Jammu and Kashmir (India).
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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Author: Raghvendra Singh
Publisher: Rupa Publications
ISBN: 9788129134622
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 491

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In this exhaustive study of the NWFP and its adjoining area of Afghanistan, Raghvendra Singh argues that with an increasingly powerful China knocking on India's door, it is imperative to recognize that the docile acceptance of NWFP's loss in 1947 may have serious consequences for India's security in times to come.

Author: Horace Arthur Rose
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caste
Languages : en
Pages : 616

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Author: Dr Jules Stewart
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0752496077
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 302

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The first significant book in forty years on this territory viewed for centuries as a lawless wilderness.

Author: William Crooke
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Customary law
Languages : en
Pages : 464

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Author: Jamestown Foundation (Washington, D.C.)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780981690520
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Pakistan's northwest frontier has become a breeding ground for a growing Islamic militancy that threatens the stability of the country. Instability in Pakistan's federally administered tribal areas and North-West frontier province also threatens NATO's strategic Khyber Pass lifeline to Afghanistan, where 37,000 U.S. troops are attempting to contain an expanding Taliban insurgency. Pakistan's Troubled Frontier offers a gripping snapshot of the militants and movements threatening a region plunging into turmoil. Arriving at a time when the United States is dramatically increasing its presence in Afghanistan and conducting a careful review of its policies and goals in the border region, the book is a substantial contribution to understanding the long-term future of U.S. security interests in South and Central Asia. "An essential source for anyone trying to understand what is happening in every single region of the tribal belt, who the main players are, their links to al-Qaeda and the Taliban and what their future aims may be. A brilliant and impressive addition to a subject of which little is known."--Ahmed Rashid, author of Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia "A timely guide for the policymaker, the scholar, and the journalist... unequaled in its range and comprehensiveness."--Stephen P. Cohen, author of The Idea of Pakistan

Author: Are J. Knudsen
Publisher: NIAS Press
ISBN: 8776940454
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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Honor and violence are major themes in the anthropology of the Middle East, yet--apart from political violence--most studies approach violence from the perspective of honour. By contrast, this important study examines the meanings of lethal conflict in a little-studied tribal society in Pakistan's unruly North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) and offers a new perspective on its causes. Based on an in-depth study of local conflicts, the book challenges stereotyped images of a region and people miscast as extremist and militant. Being grounded in local ethnography enables the book to shed light on the complexities of violence, not only at the structural or systemic level, but also as experienced by the men involved in lethal conflict. In this way, the book provides a subjective and experiential approach to violence that is applicable beyond the field locality and relevant for advancing the study of violence in the Middle East and South Asia. The book is the first ethnographic study of this region since renowned anthropologist Fredrik Barth's pioneering study in 1954.

Author: John S. Fowler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chitral
Languages : en
Pages : 112

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Author: Mukulika Banerjee
Publisher: James Currey Publishers
ISBN: 9780852552735
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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Examines the rise in the inter-war years of a Gandhian influenced non-violent movement in the North West Frontier.

Author: M. Stephan
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230101755
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 341

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This book examines the role of nonviolent civil resistance in challenging tyranny and promoting democratic-self rule in the greater Middle East using case studies and analyses of how religion, youth, women, technology and external actors have influenced the outcome of civil resistance in the region.