Waging war in Waziristan
Subtitle: the British struggle in the land of Bin Laden, 1849-1947
By: Andrew M. Roe.
Series: Modern war studies
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lawrence
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9780700616992
Subjects: Waziristan (Pakistan) -- History, Military -- 19th century; Waziristan (Pakistan) -- History, Military -- 20th century; Great Britain -- Armed Forces -- Pakistan -- Waziristan -- History -- 19th century; Great Britain -- Armed Forces -- Pakistan -- Waziristan -- History -- 20th century; India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 295-308) and index.
Table of contents: title: The lay of the land: Waziristan's people, history, and terrain; title: Blood for blood: the tribal culture of code; title: Securing the frontier: politics, policy, and tribal realities; title: The forward policies: British influence, political control, and the Maliki system; title: 1930s Waziristan: the British administrative apparatus; title: The mailed fist in the velvet glove: the army of India and the Royal Air Force; title: A cause celebre, the Fakir of Ipi, and the British response; title: Keeping the flame of insurrection alight, 1938-1947; title: The hard-earned lessons and realities of the British experience in Waziristan, Part 1; title: The hard-earned lessons and realities of the British experience in Waziristan, Part 2,; title: Contemporary parallels and prognostications.