Defiant Border
Defiant Border
The Afghan-Pakistan Borderlands in the Era of Decolonization, 1936-1965
Cambridge University Press
12/2016
272
Dura
Inglês
9781107126022
510
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Introduction. 'A doughty and honorable opponent': historicizing the Afghan-Pakistan borderlands; 1. The Pashtun tribes; 2. Geopolitics and state-building; 3. Book structure; Part I. 'Using a Crowbar to Swat Wasps': The Frontier Tribal Area in Imperial Defense: 4. India in interwar British imperial strategy; 5. Indian nationalism, the Indian army, and regional relations; 6. The 1936-7 revolt and its aftermath; 7. Indian nationalists, the subcontinent's defense, and the war effort; 8. The Pashtuns and the war effort; 9. Conclusion; Part II. The 'Opening of Sluice Gates': Plan Partition and the Frontier: 10. The end of war, imperial decline, and plan partition; 11. Reconciling independent South Asia and imperial defense; 12. The NWFP and the 1945-6 elections; 13. British policy towards the frontier tribal area; 14. Nehru's visit to the frontier and the local decline of the congress; 15. Afghanistan, regional relations, and India's Pashtuns; 16. The NWFP referendum and the future of the tribal zone; 17. Independence and evolving tribal identity; 18. Pakistan and the frontier tribal area; 19. Conclusion; Part III. 'We are One People and Ours is a Land': The Demand for Pashtunistan, 1948-52: 20. Britain, the emerging Cold War, and the Kashmir conflict; 21. Kashmir in Indio-Pakistan relations; 22. The development of independent Pakistan; 23. The rise of Afghan-Pakistan tensions; 24. Pakistan and the frontier tribal area; 25. Pashtunistan in regional and international relations; 26. Conclusion; Part IV. A 'Friendly Point of Return': Pakistan and the Global Cold War: 27. The emergence of the United States-Pakistan alliance; 28. The impasse in Afghan-Pakistan relations; 29. The frontier tribal area and the one unit plan; 30. Renegotiating Afghan-Pakistan relations in the Cold War; 31. Conclusion; Part V. An 'Eye for an Eye': Mohammad Ayub Khan and the Collapse of Regional Relations: 32. India and the United States: democracies reunited; 33. Ayub Khan's ascendancy; 34. Domestic change and integrating borderlands; 35. Daud and Afghan modernization; 36. Violence returns to the borderlands; 37. The 1960 Afghan-Pakistan rupture; 38. The failure of US mediation; 39. The aftermath of the encounter; 40. Conclusion; Part VI. Conclusion. 'Religion, Land, Lineage, and Honour': The Afghan-Pakistan Borderlands Then and Now: 41. Pashtunistan then and now.
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Introduction. 'A doughty and honorable opponent': historicizing the Afghan-Pakistan borderlands; 1. The Pashtun tribes; 2. Geopolitics and state-building; 3. Book structure; Part I. 'Using a Crowbar to Swat Wasps': The Frontier Tribal Area in Imperial Defense: 4. India in interwar British imperial strategy; 5. Indian nationalism, the Indian army, and regional relations; 6. The 1936-7 revolt and its aftermath; 7. Indian nationalists, the subcontinent's defense, and the war effort; 8. The Pashtuns and the war effort; 9. Conclusion; Part II. The 'Opening of Sluice Gates': Plan Partition and the Frontier: 10. The end of war, imperial decline, and plan partition; 11. Reconciling independent South Asia and imperial defense; 12. The NWFP and the 1945-6 elections; 13. British policy towards the frontier tribal area; 14. Nehru's visit to the frontier and the local decline of the congress; 15. Afghanistan, regional relations, and India's Pashtuns; 16. The NWFP referendum and the future of the tribal zone; 17. Independence and evolving tribal identity; 18. Pakistan and the frontier tribal area; 19. Conclusion; Part III. 'We are One People and Ours is a Land': The Demand for Pashtunistan, 1948-52: 20. Britain, the emerging Cold War, and the Kashmir conflict; 21. Kashmir in Indio-Pakistan relations; 22. The development of independent Pakistan; 23. The rise of Afghan-Pakistan tensions; 24. Pakistan and the frontier tribal area; 25. Pashtunistan in regional and international relations; 26. Conclusion; Part IV. A 'Friendly Point of Return': Pakistan and the Global Cold War: 27. The emergence of the United States-Pakistan alliance; 28. The impasse in Afghan-Pakistan relations; 29. The frontier tribal area and the one unit plan; 30. Renegotiating Afghan-Pakistan relations in the Cold War; 31. Conclusion; Part V. An 'Eye for an Eye': Mohammad Ayub Khan and the Collapse of Regional Relations: 32. India and the United States: democracies reunited; 33. Ayub Khan's ascendancy; 34. Domestic change and integrating borderlands; 35. Daud and Afghan modernization; 36. Violence returns to the borderlands; 37. The 1960 Afghan-Pakistan rupture; 38. The failure of US mediation; 39. The aftermath of the encounter; 40. Conclusion; Part VI. Conclusion. 'Religion, Land, Lineage, and Honour': The Afghan-Pakistan Borderlands Then and Now: 41. Pashtunistan then and now.
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