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Ramparts of empire : British imperialism and India's Afghan frontier, 1918-1948 / Brandon Marsh, assistant professor of history, Bridgewater College, USA.
Van Pelt Library DS480.45 .M378 2015
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marsh, Brandon, 1979- author.
- Series:
- Britain and the world
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tribal government.
- History.
- Nationalism.
- Borderlands.
- Relations.
- India--Politics and government--1919-1947.
- India.
- Politics and government.
- India, Northwestern--Relations--Afghanistan.
- India, Northwestern.
- Afghanistan--Relations--India, Northwestern.
- Afghanistan.
- Borderlands--India, Northwestern--History--20th century.
- Borderlands--Afghanistan--History--20th century.
- India--History--British occupation, 1765-1947.
- Imperialism--History--20th century.
- Imperialism.
- Nationalism--India, Northwestern--History--20th century.
- Nationalism--Afghanistan--History--20th century.
- Tribal government--Afghanistan--History--20th century.
- Northwestern India.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 292 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- Contents:
- The North-West Frontier : policies, perceptions, and the conservative impulse in the British Raj
- The North-West Frontier and the crisis of empire, 1919-1923
- A cigarette in a powder magazine : the frontier, nationalism, and reform, 1919-1930
- "A considerable degree of supineness" : nationalism and the British administration, 1928-1930
- "These infernal Khudai Khidmatgaran" : defining and repressing frontier nationalism, 1930-1932
- "The forbidden land" : the British, frontier nationalism, and Congress, 1931-1934
- "If the ramparts fall, the city must fall also" : the frontier and Indian constitutional reform, 1930-1939
- Tribal policy and its discontents, 1930-1939
- The North-West Frontier and the Second World War, 1939-1946
- Conclusion: The end of British rule and the frontier legacy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137374004
- 1137374004
- OCLC:
- 887848024
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