Ramparts of empire
Subtitle: British imperialism and India's Afghan frontier, 1918-1948
By: Brandon Marsh (assistant professor of history, Bridgewater College, USA)
Series: Britain and the world
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke Hampshire
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781137374004
Subjects: Politics and government; Relations; Borderlands; History; Imperialism; Nationalism; Tribal government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references( pages 275-285)
Table of contents: title: The North-West Frontier : policies, perceptions, and the conservative impulse in the British Raj; title: The North-West Frontier and the crisis of empire, 1919-1923; title: A cigarette in a powder magazine : the frontier, nationalism, and reform, 1919-1930; title: "A considerable degree of supineness" : nationalism and the British administration, 1928-1930; title: "These infernal Khudai Khidmatgaran" : defining and repressing frontier nationalism, 1930-1932; title: "The forbidden land" : the British, frontier nationalism, and Congress, 1931-1934; title: "If the ramparts fall, the city must fall also" : the frontier and Indian constitutional reform, 1930-1939; title: Tribal policy and its discontents, 1930-1939; title: The North-West Frontier and the Second World War, 1939-1946; title: Conclusion: The end of British rule and the frontier legacy.