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: 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: 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: Magnus Marsden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781139448376
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 322
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Popular representations of Pakistan's North West Frontier have long featured simplistic images of tribal blood feuds, fanatical religion, and the seclusion of women. The rise to power of the radical Taliban regime in neighbouring Afghanistan enhanced the region's reputation as a place of anti-Western militancy. Magnus Marsden is an anthropologist who has immersed himself in the lives of the Frontier's villagers for more than ten years. His evocative study of the Chitral region challenges all these stereotypes. Through an exploration of the everyday experiences of both men and women, he shows that the life of a good Muslim in Chitral is above all a mindful life, enhanced by the creative force of poetry, dancing and critical debate. Challenging much that has been assumed about the Muslim world, this 2005 study makes a powerful contribution to the understanding of religion and politics both within and beyond the Muslim societies of southern Asia.
Author: Sir George Campbell
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eastern question (Central Asia)
Languages : en
Pages : 34
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Author: John S. Fowler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Chitral
Languages : en
Pages : 112
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Author: Sir James McCrone Douie
Publisher: Cambridge : University Press
ISBN:
Category : Jammu and Kashmir (India).
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Author: Horace Arthur Rose
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Caste
Languages : en
Pages : 616
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Author: Michael Barthorp
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN: 9780304362943
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184
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From the 1830s to Indian independence in 1947, British soldiers fought constant wars with the most implacable guerrilla-fighters in history. The Afghan mountain tribes were fiercely independent. For generations they had plundered the north Indian plain, until the British took charge and alternated between paying them subsidies (bribes to cease their raiding) and launching punitive military expeditions to teach them manners. It was a strange war fought to its own rules. Neither side took prisoners. Yet a grudging respect for the enemy and a concern to stick by unwritten codes of conduct governed this 100-year war. Immortalized by Kipling, the British Army in India fought along the frontier until the withdrawal from the sub-continent in 1947. Michael Barthorp tells the story in a vivid style.
Author: John Jacob
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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