"Celebrating 70 years of Pakistan, the platinum series."

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

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.

"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.