Pathans of the Latter Day
Pathans of the Latter Day

Author: James William Spain

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13:

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Pathans of the Latter Day is a sequel to the author's The Way of the Pathans written more than forty years ago and frequently cited in literature on Pakistan's north-west frontier since. It is a self-contained volume based on return visits to the Frontier in the 1980s and 1990s. A combination of history, personal experience, and interpretation, Pathans of the Latter Day details the origins and structure of the volatile tribesmen living along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan, their highly developed code of law, Pukhtunwali, their acceptance of Pakistan, their relations with their Chinese neighbours, and their experiences during the wars in Afghanistan. A quietly humorous anecdotal style provides vivid glimpses of life among today's modernized Pathans, as well as among traditional tribesmen of the Afridi, Wazir, Mahsud, Yusufzai, Mohmand, and Khattak clans.

In Those Days
In Those Days

Author: James William Spain

Publisher: Kent State University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 284

ISBN-13: 9780873386067

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An autobiography of a 20th-century American diplomat who spent most of his life in high-level diplomacy in Asia and Africa. His Foreign Service career brought postings in Islamabad, Istanbul, and Ankara, and four ambassadorships - in Tanzania, Turkey, the UN, and Sri Lanka

The Defiant Border
The Defiant Border

Author: Elisabeth Leake

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 279

ISBN-13: 1107126029

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This book explores why the Afghan-Pakistan borderlands have remained largely independent of state controls throughout the twentieth century.

Afghanistan and the Coloniality of Diplomacy
Afghanistan and the Coloniality of Diplomacy

Author: Maximilian Drephal

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-09-25

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 3030239608

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This book offers an institutional history of the British Legation in Kabul, which was established in response to the independence of Afghanistan in 1919. It contextualises this diplomatic mission in the wider remit of Anglo-Afghan relations and diplomacy from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century, examining the networks of family and profession that established the institution’s colonial foundations and its connections across South Asia and the Indian Ocean. The study presents the British Legation as a late imperial institution, which materialised colonialism's governmental practices in the age of independence. Ultimately, it demonstrates the continuation of asymmetries forged in the Anglo-Afghan encounter and shows how these were transformed into instances of diplomatic inequality in the realm of international relations. Approaching diplomacy through the themes of performance, the body and architecture, and in the context of knowledge transfers, this work offers new perspectives on international relations through a cultural history of diplomacy.

The Limits of Culture
The Limits of Culture

Author: Brenda Shaffer

Publisher: MIT Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 738

ISBN-13: 0262195291

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Experts analyze the effect of cultural interests on the foreign policy of states in the Caspian region, including Iran, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, Afghanistan, Kazakhstan, and Pakistan.

The status of Women in FATA: A Comparison between Islamic Principles and Pashtunwali
The status of Women in FATA: A Comparison between Islamic Principles and Pashtunwali

Author: Abdul Qadeer

Publisher: EduPedia Publications (P) Ltd

Published: 2014-08-20

Total Pages: 43

ISBN-13: 1517383870

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Islamic principles and Pashtunwali are the two main factors dominating the social behavior in Pashtun society. Regarding the status of women they are similar in some aspects of life while in several others, they are different from each other. They are similar in the practices of polygamy; banquet during marriage; veil (purdah) of women; rules for entering the houses of others and up to some extent in the method of divorce. They are different in the practices of women€™s share in property and inheritance; the seeking of consent of women during marriage; the punishment of adultery and honor killing; the practice of mahr and bride-price. In Pashtun society women are denied the share in property and inheritance; consent in marriage is also not sought; they are killed in cases of adultery or on the basis of mere suspicion and friendly relations with men. The family of the woman takes bride-price on her marriage. The practices of forced marriages also take place like swara, takkan kawal, badal wodaetc but these practices are rare. Although divorce takes place according to Islamic principles but women have a little say in seeking divorce. The culture has been1 Khan Abdul Ghani Khan, The Pathans (Peshawar:S.I.E.St.Road, 1990), 29.adopted in such a way that it fulfills the economic, social and political interests of men at the cost of women€™s interests. Islamic principles and Pashtunwali are the two main factors dominating the social behavior in Pashtun society. Regarding the status of women they are similar in some aspects of life while in several others, they are different from each other. They are similar in the practices of polygamy; banquet during marriage; veil (purdah) of women; rules for entering the houses of others and up to some extent in the method of divorce. They are different in the practices of women€™s share in property and inheritance; the seeking of consent of women during marriage; the punishment of adultery and honor killing; the practice of mahr and bride-price. In Pashtun society women are denied the share in property and inheritance; consent in marriage is also not sought; they are killed in cases of adultery or on the basis of mere suspicion and friendly relations with men. The family of the woman takes bride-price on her marriage. The practices of forced marriages also take place like swara, takkan kawal, badal wodaetc but these practices are rare. Although divorce takes place according to Islamic principles but women have a little say in seeking divorce. The culture has been1 Khan Abdul Ghani Khan, The Pathans (Peshawar:S.I.E.St.Road, 1990), 29.adopted in such a way that it fulfills the economic, social and political interests of men at the cost of womens interests.

Pakistan
Pakistan

Author: Anatol Lieven

Publisher: PublicAffairs

Published: 2012-03-06

Total Pages: 594

ISBN-13: 1610391624

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In the past decade Pakistan has become a country of immense importance to its region, the United States, and the world. With almost 200 million people, a 500,000-man army, nuclear weapons, and a large diaspora in Britain and North America, Pakistan is central to the hopes of jihadis and the fears of their enemies. Yet the greatest short-term threat to Pakistan is not Islamist insurgency as such, but the actions of the United States, and the greatest long-term threat is ecological change. Anatol Lieven's book is a magisterial investigation of this highly complex and often poorly understood country: its regions, ethnicities, competing religious traditions, varied social landscapes, deep political tensions, and historical patterns of violence; but also its surprising underlying stability, rooted in kinship, patronage, and the power of entrenched local elites. Engagingly written, combining history and profound analysis with reportage from Lieven's extensive travels as a journalist and academic, Pakistan: A Hard Country is both utterly compelling and deeply revealing.

Mountstuart Elphinstone in South Asia
Mountstuart Elphinstone in South Asia

Author: Shah Mahmoud Hanifi

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 458

ISBN-13: 0190914408

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Examines the life of one of the principal intellectual architects of British colonial rule in South Asia.

Paul Scott
Paul Scott

Author: John Lennard

Publisher: eBook Partnership

Published: 2012-10-21

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 1847602207

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A historically informed and informing study guide to of Scott's four great novels of British India - The Jewel in the Crown, The Day of the Scorpion, The Towers of Silence, A Division of the Spoils - and of the popular coda, Staying On. The book covers Paul Scott's Life and works, the British Raj, imperial decay, civil and military India, the Indian independence movement, the birth of India and Pakistan, Ghandi, Jinnah, Congress and the Muslim League, the characters of the novel, especially Edwina Crane, Daphne Manners, Ronald Merrick and Hari Kumar.John Lennard's The Poetry Handbook (OUP, 1996; 2/e 2005), with Mary Luckhurst The Drama Handbook (OUP, 2002), and Of Modern Dragons and other essays on Genre Fiction (HEB, 2007). He is General Editor of HEB's Genre Fiction Sightlines and Monographs series, for which he has written on Reginald Hill, Walter Mosley, Octavia E. Butler, Ian McDonald, and Tamora Pierce. For Literature Insights he has also written on Shakespeare's Hamlet and Nabokov's Lolita.