Settling the Frontier : Land, Law and Society in the Peshawar Valley, 1500-1900 / Robert Nichols.

By:

Nichols, Robert (Professor of history) [author.]

Material type:

TextPublisher: Karachi, Pakistan : Oxford University Press, 2017Edition: Second editionDescription: xxiv, 380 pages : maps ; 23 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780199406135
0199406138

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

History.

DDC classification:

954.9123 23 NIC-S 1583

LOC classification:

DS392.2.P47 N53 2017

Contents:

Introduction : The Peshawar Valley and the Idea of a Frontier -- 1. History, Anthropology, and the Eighteenth Century -- 2. Genealogy as Ideology -- 3. The Politics, Poetics, and Economy of the Land -- 4. Narratives of Continuity and Domination -- 5. Millenarianism : Religion, Class, and Resistance -- 6. Social Geographies -- 7. Settling the Frontier -- 8. Colonizing Institutions -- 9. Anglo-Pakhtun Society -- 10. Interpreting Resistance, the 'Fanatic', and the Subaltern -- Conclusion: Settlement as Metaphor -- Postscript for the 2017 edition.

Summary: "This work explores the question of social transformation within the Peshawar valley from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century, an extended period when regional villagers and pastoralists experienced and interacted with the demands of evolving imperial and cultural ideas and institutions"--Dustcover Page 4.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 320-322, 359-371) and index.

"This work explores the question of social transformation within the Peshawar valley from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century, an extended period when regional villagers and pastoralists experienced and interacted with the demands of evolving imperial and cultural ideas and institutions"--Dustcover Page 4.

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