Beyond Swat : history, society and economy along the Afghanistan-Pakistan frontier / Benjamin D. Hopkins and Magnus Marsden, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hopkins, B. D., 1978-

Marsden, Magnus.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Relations.

Borderlands.

Swāt District (Pakistan)--History--Congresses.

Swāt District (Pakistan).

Swāt District (Pakistan)--Social conditions--Congresses.

Swāt District (Pakistan)--Social life and customs--Congresses.

Swāt District (Pakistan)--Politics and government--Congresses.

Borderlands--Afghanistan--Congresses.

Borderlands--Pakistan--Congresses.

Pakistan--Relations--Afghanistan--Congresses.

Pakistan.

Afghanistan--Relations--Pakistan--Congresses.

Afghanistan.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xv, 365 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Other Title:

History, society and economy along the Afghanistan-Pakistan frontier

Place of Publication:

London : C. Hurst & Co., 2013.

Contents:

Introduction: Rethinking Swat: militancy and modernity along the Afghanistan-Pakistan frontier / Benjamin D. Hopkins and Magnus Marsden

Swat in retrospect / Charles Lindholm

The Abadli Afghans between Multan, Qandahar and Herat in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Christine Noelle-Karimi

A history of the "Hindustani fanatics" on the frontier / Benjamin D. Hopkins

Kashars against Mashars : jihad and social change in the FATA / Mariam Abou Zahab

A history of linguistic boundary crossing within and around Pashto / Shah Mahmoud Hanifi

The road to Kabul: automobiles and Afghan internationalismm 1900-40 / Nile Green

Being a diplomat on the frontier of south and central Asia: trade and traders in Afghanistan / Magnus Marsden

Class, patronage and coercion in the Pakistani Punjab and in Swat / Nicolas Emilio Martin

Exceptional Pashtuns?: Class politics, imperialism and historiography / Nancy Lindsfarne

Class, state and power in Swat conflict / Robert Nichols

The Swat crisis / Sultan-i-Rome

Producing civil society, ignoring Rivaj: international donors, the state and development / Urs Geiser

Public visibility of women and the rise of the neo-Taliban movement in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 2007-09 / Sana Haroon

Custom and conflict in Waziristan: some British views / Hugh Beattie

Studying Pashtuns in Barth's shadow / Richard Rapper

If only there were leaders: the problem of "fixing" the Pashtun tribes / Antonio Giustozzi

Lessons on governance from the Wali of Swat: state-building in Afghanistan, 1995-2010.

Notes:

Previously published by Columbia University Press, 2012.

The origins of this volume lay in a conference organized in the summer of 2010, entitled Rethinking the Swat Pathan.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-357) and index.

ISBN:

1849042063

9781849042062

OCLC:

778327507

Publisher Number:

99953877430