The Pathans

The Pathans
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Total Pages : 590
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ISBN-10 : UCAL:B4300678
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Synopsis The Pathans by : Olaf Caroe

Political Leadership Among Swat Pathans

Political Leadership Among Swat Pathans
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 200
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ISBN-10 : 9781000324488
ISBN-13 : 1000324486
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Synopsis Political Leadership Among Swat Pathans by : Fredrik Barth

A classic and highly influential ethnography, which explores political leadership among Swat Pathans - and which emphasizes the importance of individual decision-making for wider social processes. This study describes certain aspects of the society of the Pathans of the Swat valley in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan. Except where other reference is given, the material on which it is based was collected by the author in the period February-November 1954.

Pathans of the Latter Day

Pathans of the Latter Day
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Total Pages : 184
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015037695908
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Synopsis Pathans of the Latter Day by : James William Spain

Pathans of the Latter Day is a sequel to the author's The Way of the Pathans written more than forty years ago and frequently cited in literature on Pakistan's north-west frontier since. It is a self-contained volume based on return visits to the Frontier in the 1980s and 1990s. A combination of history, personal experience, and interpretation, Pathans of the Latter Day details the origins and structure of the volatile tribesmen living along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, their highly developed code of law, Pukhtunwali, their acceptance of Pakistan, their relations with their Chinese neighbours, and their experiences during the wars in Afghanistan. A quietly humorous anecdotal style provides vivid glimpses of life among today's modernized Pathans, as well as among traditional tribesmen of the Afridi, Wazir, Mahsud, Yusufzai, Mohmand, and Khattak clans.

Millennium and Charisma Among Pathans

Millennium and Charisma Among Pathans
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 196
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ISBN-10 : 9780415617963
ISBN-13 : 0415617960
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis Millennium and Charisma Among Pathans by : Akbar Ahmed

First published in 1976, this Routledge Revivals reissue presents an analysis of the Swat Pathans, the people of the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, who belong administratively to Pakistan despite being a fiercely independent group, with their own codes and ways of life. Akbar S. Ahmed, who knows the Swat Pathans well through his family connections, presents a clear and sophisticated analysis of their complex society. The study provides an anthropological and critical re-examination of the ethnography of the Swat Pathans and the author suggests specific alternative models of social organization. The book also represents an important contribution to the general debate in the social sciences between the âe~methodological individualistsâe(tm) and the âe~methodological holistsâe(tm), and challenges some of the theoretical and methodological premises in anthropology. In particular the author is critical of Professor Fredrik Barthâe(tm)s study of Swat Pathans, for he believes that the âe~Swat modelsâe(tm) have inadvertently become the basis for generalized, and often incorrect, understanding of models of Pathan socio-political organization in the social sciences.

The Pathan Borderland

The Pathan Borderland
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Total Pages : 306
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015048906674
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Rating : 4/5 (74 Downloads)

Synopsis The Pathan Borderland by : James William Spain

Facts are Facts

Facts are Facts
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Publisher : New Delhi : Vikas Publishing House
Total Pages : 200
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ISBN-10 : MINN:31951002203907I
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Rating : 4/5 (7I Downloads)

Synopsis Facts are Facts by : Khan Abdul Wali Khan

The Pathans

The Pathans
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Total Pages : 372
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ISBN-10 : UVA:X001399449
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Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis The Pathans by : Syed Abdul Quddus

The Pashtun Question

The Pashtun Question
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Publisher : Hurst & Company Limited
Total Pages : 316
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ISBN-10 : 9781849042925
ISBN-13 : 1849042926
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis The Pashtun Question by : Abubakar Siddique

Most contemporary journalistic and scholarly accounts of the instability gripping Afghanistan and Pakistan have argued that violent Islamic extremism, including support for the Taliban and related groups, is either rooted in Pashtun history and culture, or finds willing hosts among their communities on both sides of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. Abubakar Siddique sets out to demonstrate that the failure, or even unwillingness, of both Afghanistan and Pakistan to absorb the Pashtuns into their state structures and to incorporate them into the economic and political fabric is central to these dynamics, and a critical failure of nation- and state-building in both states. In his book he argues that religious extremism is the product of these critical failures and that responsibility for the situation lies to some degree with the elites of both countries. Partly an eye-witness account and partly meticulously researched scholarship, The Pashtun Question describes a people whose destiny will shape the future of Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Durand's Curse

Durand's Curse
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Publisher : Rupa Publications
Total Pages : 256
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ISBN-10 : 8129148641
ISBN-13 : 9788129148643
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis Durand's Curse by : Rajiv Dogra

Blood and fire have often blighted Afghanistan, the three Anglo-Afghan wars being among the bloodiest and the cruelest in its history. But Britain's partitioning of Afghanistan will rank as the greatest crime of the nineteenth century. That arbitrary line which Mortimer Durand drew in 1893 on a small piece of paper continues to bleed Afghanistan and hound the world. Alas, this story remained untold until now. Written in an inimitable style, Durand's Curse is the result of deep research. Fascinating details from long-buried archives of history reveal for the first time a tale of intrigue and deceit against Afghanistan. First the British and then Pakistan had taken away territory that originally belonged to Afghanistan. But the divided Pathan families refuse to accept this division even now and for the last century and over, there has been a struggle to rub out the cursed line drawn across the sand. Rajiv Dogra brings alive the wars, the tragedies and the Afghan anger against injustice in this heart-wrenching account of Afghanistan's misfortunes. This is an absolutely riveting story of the Indian sub-continent's history told by an important writer of our generation.

Ghaffar Khan

Ghaffar Khan
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Publisher : Penguin UK
Total Pages : 268
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ISBN-10 : 9789351181651
ISBN-13 : 9351181650
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis Ghaffar Khan by : Rajmohan Gandhi

Born into the Muhammadzai tribe, from the Charsadda valley in the Pakhtun heartland, Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan was a passionate believer in the nonviolent core of Islam and sought to wean his people-the fierce warrior Pakhtuns or Pathans of the North-West Frontier Province-from their violent traditions and fight for a separate Pakhtun homeland that would no longer be a buffer between Russia and Britain in the Great Game. In 1929 came Mahatma Gandhi's call for nonviolent resistance against British rule and Badshah Khan responded by raising the Khudai Khidmatgars (Servants of God), an army of 1,00,000 men who pledged themselves to the service of mankind and nonviolence as a creed. For this, and for his steadfast devotion to his principles, this towering figure was imprisoned for a total of twenty-seven years, first by the British and later by the Pakistani government. This is a perceptive biography that offers fresh insights into the life and achievements of an extraordinary man, drawing close parallels with the life of Mahatma Gandhi, his brother in spirit.The author looks at Ghaffar Khan 'with the spectacles of today rather than those of 1947', emphasizing that for people in the twenty-first century who live in the shadow of 9/11, Badshah Khan's unwavering commitment to nonviolence and Hindu-Muslim unity offers valuable lessons.