India's Lost Frontier
India's Lost Frontier

Author: Raghvendra Singh

Publisher: Rupa Publications

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 491

ISBN-13: 9788129134622

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

In this exhaustive study of the NWFP and its adjoining area of Afghanistan, Raghvendra Singh argues that with an increasingly powerful China knocking on India's door, it is imperative to recognize that the docile acceptance of NWFP's loss in 1947 may have serious consequences for India's security in times to come.

Armies of the Nineteenth Century: China
Armies of the Nineteenth Century: China

Author: Ian Heath

Publisher:

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781901543025

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Ian Heath has assembled 183 line drawings and 39 photographs to illustrate the huge array of costumes and uniforms worn during this period. Coverage includes the Taipeng and Boxer rebellions, Formosa, the Mongols and Gordon's Ever Victorious Army. Ian Heath's accompanying text is one of the most coherent accounts available of Chinese history during this turbulent period. Includes extensive bibliography. All the volumes in this series have a high quality traditional gold-embossed cloth cover and no dust jacket.

Delusional States
Delusional States

Author: Nosheen Ali

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-09-19

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1108497446

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Offers a pioneering study of state-making, religion, and development in contemporary Pakistan and its northern frontier.

The Frontier in British India
The Frontier in British India

Author: Thomas Simpson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2021-01-07

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1108840191

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

An innovative account of how distinctive forms of colonial power and knowledge developed at the territorial fringes of British India. Thomas Simpson considers the role of frontier officials as surveyors, cartographers and ethnographers, military violence in frontier regions and the impact of the frontier experience on colonial administration.