ISBN : 9780199406135
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.
Acknowledgements
List of Appendices
List of Maps
Preface to the 2017 Edition
Introductory Essay for the 2017 Edition
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
Appendices (Tables, Commentary)
Glossary
Selected Bibliography
Index