Author: Septimus Smet Thorburn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783337456986
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 496

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Author: Septimus Smet Thorburn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bannu (Pakistan)
Languages : en
Pages : 506

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Author: Septimus Smet Thorburn
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bannu District (Pakistan)
Languages : en
Pages : 576

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Author: S S Thorburn
Publisher: Legare Street Press
ISBN: 9781022678040
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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A memoir of S. S. Thorburn's experiences as a British colonial administrator in Bannu, near the border between present-day Pakistan and Afghanistan. Thorburn writes about the geography and customs of the region, its strategic importance to the British Empire, and his interactions with the local tribes. This book offers a fascinating look at a little-known chapter of British imperial history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author: Henry Dodwell
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 736

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Author: Henry Walter Bellew
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Afghanistan
Languages : en
Pages : 136

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Author: Heather Bleaney
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047416678
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411

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This up-to-date, comprehensive, thematically indexed bibliography devoted to Afghanistan now and yesterday will help readers to efficiently find their way in the massive secondary literature available. Following the pattern established by one of its major data sources, viz. the acclaimed Index Islamicus, both journal articles and book publications are included and expertly indexed. An indispensable entry for all those taking professional or personal interest in a nation so much the focus of attention today.

Author: Septimus Smet Thorburn
Publisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 394

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Author: C. Collin Davies
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107662095
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 235

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First published in 1932, this book presents a historical study of the problems associated with controlling the 'North-West Frontier' region of British India. The text focuses in the main on the period 1890 to 1908, although a survey of policy since 1849 is also provided. It was based almost entirely on analysis of numerous official documents and original sources, which are quoted throughout. Appendices and a select bibliography are included at the end. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in perspectives on British India and historiography.

Author: Thomas Simpson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108840191
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315

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An innovative account of how distinctive forms of colonial power and knowledge developed at the territorial fringes of British India. Thomas Simpson considers the role of frontier officials as surveyors, cartographers and ethnographers, military violence in frontier regions and the impact of the frontier experience on colonial administration.