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Edge of Empire
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 124.95Created in the late eighteenth century by the East India Company to manage relations with the princely rulers of the Indian States, political offers developed into a mechanism by which Britain could manage remote territories through relations with local power brokers. In this study, the role of the political officer on the Western Frontier of India... more...
A Frontier Campaign
Andrews UK 2012; US$ 13.49Authentic account of the Field Forces operating on the NW Frontier of India 189798. Fincastle was awarded the VC during the Tirah campaign 1897 while serving with 16th Lancers. more...
Living Islam
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 36.00What does it mean to be a good Muslim? Magnus Marsden challenges the assumption that Muslims in northern Pakistan unthinkingly support the teachings of radical Islamist movements. In this extraordinary insider account, he documents how Chitral Muslims practise their religion through a complex interaction between mind and spirit. more...
India,, Pakistan and the Secret Jihad
Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 44.95India, Pakistan and the Secret Jihad explores the history of jihadist violence in Kashmir, and argues that the violent conflict which exploded after 1990 was not a historical discontinuity, but, rather, an escalation of what was by then a five-decade old secret war. Praveen Swami addresses three key issues: the history of jihadist violence... more...
The Grandeur of Gandhara
Algora Publishing 2011; US$ 23.95The northwestern regions of Pakistan and southeastern regions of Afghanistan were once the heart of a highly developed civilization whose cultural impact was felt from China to Persia. A major center of Buddhism, its cultural attainments were highlights of ancient civilization. The author's research, accompanied by some 60 illustrations, offers... more...
The Khyber Rifles
The History Press 2013; US$ 13.11Still recruited from the Pathan tribes that live in the no-man's land between Pakistan and Afghanistan, the Khyber Rifles continue to stand guard over this area, one of the world's most volatile borders. For more than a century, these gallant poachers turned gamekeepers fought for the British Raj against their own kith and kin, but to date nothing... more...
Resistance and Control in Pakistan
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 57.95How can people in the West make sense of contemporary unrest in the Muslim world? Is Islamic fundamentalism to be understood purely in religious terms? In Resistance and Control in Pakistan , one of the world's leading authorities on Islam, Akbar S. Ahmed, illuminates what is happening in the Muslim world today and assesses the underlying causes.... more...
The Army in India and the Development of Frontier Warfare, 1849-1947
Palgrave Macmillan 1998; US$ 185.00This comprehensive study is the first scholarly account explaining how the British and Indian armies adapted to the peculiar demands of fighting an irregular tribal opponent in the mountainous no-man's-land between India and Afghanistan. It does so by discussing how a tactical doctrine of frontier fighting was developed and 'passed on' to succeeding... more...
Instant City
Penguin Group US 2011; US$ 9.99From the host of NPR's Morning Edition , a deeply reported portrait of Karachi, Pakistan, a city that illuminates the perils and possibilities of rapidly growing metropolises all around the world. In recent decades, the world has seen an unprecedented shift of people from the countryside into cities. As Steve Inskeep so aptly puts it, we... more...
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