Ramparts of Empire
Ramparts of Empire

Author: B. Marsh

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-12-10

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1137374012

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This cultural and political study examines British perceptions and policies on India's Afghan Frontier between 1918 and 1948 and the impact of these on the local Pashtun population, India as a whole, and the decline of British imperialism in South Asia.

The Statesman's Year-Book
The Statesman's Year-Book

Author: M. Epstein

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2016-12-27

Total Pages: 1506

ISBN-13: 0230270638

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The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River
Empires of the Indus: The Story of a River

Author: Alice Albinia

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2010-04-05

Total Pages: 400

ISBN-13: 0393063224

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“Alice Albinia is the most extraordinary traveler of her generation. . . . A journey of astonishing confidence and courage.”—Rory Stewart One of the largest rivers in the world, the Indus rises in the Tibetan mountains and flows west across northern India and south through Pakistan. It has been worshipped as a god, used as a tool of imperial expansion, and today is the cement of Pakistan’s fractious union. Alice Albinia follows the river upstream, through two thousand miles of geography and back to a time five thousand years ago when a string of sophisticated cities grew on its banks. “This turbulent history, entwined with a superlative travel narrative” (The Guardian) leads us from the ruins of elaborate metropolises, to the bitter divisions of today. Like Rory Stewart’s The Places In Between, Empires of the Indus is an engrossing personal journey and a deeply moving portrait of a river and its people.