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Nichols, Robert (Professor of history),

Settling the frontier : land, law and society in the Peshawar valley, 1500-1900 / Robert Nichols. - Second edition. - xxiv, 380 pages : maps ; 23 cm

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

"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.

ISBN: 9780199406135 0199406138

LCCN: 2018377470

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Pushtuns--History.--Pakistan--Peshawar Region
Civilization.
Pushtuns.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Peshawar Region (Pakistan)--History.
Peshawar District (Pakistan)--Civilization.
Pakistan--Peshawar District.
Pakistan--Peshawar Region.

Index Terms--Genre/Form:
History.

LC Class. No.: DS392.2.P47 / N53 2017

Dewey Class. No.: 954.9123