The Afghan-Pakistan Borderlands in the Era of Decolonization, 1936–1965
by
Elisabeth Leake
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2016
The Defiant Border explores why the Afghan-Pakistan borderlands have remained largely independent of state controls from the colonial period into the twenty-first century. This book looks at local Pashtun tribes' modes for evading first British colonial, then Pakistani, governance; the ongoing border...