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Settling the frontier : land, law, and society in the Peshawar valley, 1500-1900 / Robert Nichols.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publication details: Karachi : Oxford University Press, ©2001. Description: xxxvii, 321 pages : maps ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780195793802
  • 0195793803
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • DS392.2. P47.
Contents:
Contents: List of appendices—List of maps—Preface—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—Appendices (tables, commentary)—Glossary—Selected bibliography—Index.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Notes Date due Barcode Item holds
Monograph Monograph Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University DS392.2.P47.N53 2001 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 2 Available 3ACKU000095124
Monograph Monograph Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University Available The second copy is donated by Robert Nichols. 3ACKU000378918
Total holds: 0

“Includes bibliography”—(pages [299]-313).

Contents: List of appendices—List of maps—Preface—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—Appendices (tables, commentary)—Glossary—Selected bibliography—Index.

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