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Bannu Or Our Afghan Frontier
A memoir of S. S. Thorburn's experiences as a British colonial administrator in Bannu, near the border between present-day Pakistan and Afghanistan. Thorburn writes about the geography and customs of the region, its strategic importance to the British Empire, and his interactions with the local tribes. This book offers a fascinating look at a little-known chapter of British imperial history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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The Insecurity State
A provocative examination of how the British colonial experience in India was shaped by chronic unease, anxiety, and insecurity.
Agrarian Reform and Farmer Resistance in Punjab
This book examines different dimensions of farmer agitations in Punjab, India. It situates the 2020–2021 farmer resistance movement within the wider context of India’s post-independent development trajectory and provides a thorough analysis of various aspects of the farmers’ movement in India. The volume contextualizes Punjab’s history of farmer resistance, organization and mobilization strategies, the globalization of the movement, ways of both sustaining the movement and building resilience. While providing a critical understanding of the three farm laws introduced in India in 2020, the book looks at how they may impact farm operations and livelihoods in the post-Green Revolution p...
Define and Rule
When Britain abandoned its attempt to eradicate difference between conqueror and conquered and introduced a new idea of governance as the definition and management of difference, lines of political identity were drawn between settler and native, and between natives according to tribe. Out of this colonial experience arose a language of pluralism.
Mountstuart Elphinstone in South Asia
Examines the life of one of the principal intellectual architects of British colonial rule in South Asia.
Bannú. Or, Our Afghan Frontier
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
