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  • Edge of Empireby Christian Tripodi

    Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 124.95

    Created 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 Campaignby The Viscount Fincastle; P. C. Eliott-Lockhart

    Andrews UK 2012; US$ 13.49

    Authentic account of the Field Forces operating on the NW Frontier of India 1897–98. Fincastle was awarded the VC during the Tirah campaign 1897 while serving with 16th Lancers. more...

  • Living Islamby Magnus Marsden

    Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 36.00

    What 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 Jihadby Praveen Swami

    Taylor and Francis 2006; US$ 44.95

    India, 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 Gandharaby Rafi-us Samad

    Algora Publishing 2011; US$ 23.95

    The 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 Riflesby Jules Stewart

    The History Press 2013; US$ 13.11

    Still 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 Pakistanby Akbar S. Ahmed

    Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 57.95

    How 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, 1849-1947by T. R. Moreman

    Palgrave Macmillan 1998; US$ 185.00

    This 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 Cityby Steve Inskeep

    Penguin Group US 2011; US$ 9.99

    From 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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