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The Pashtun Borderlands: A History of Not Being Governed, 1944–1979
Author:
Robert Nichols
Binding:
Hardcover
Year:
2027
Pages:
320
Size:
16 x 24 cm
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In the mid-twentieth century, the high valleys and rugged frontiers between the burgeoning states of Pakistan and Afghanistan became a crucible for a new kind of postcolonial politics, one defined as much by the absence of state authority as by its imposition. In
The Pashtun Borderlands
, historian Robert Nichols offers a definitive account of this critical period, tracing the region’s journey from the final years of the British Raj to the precipice of the Soviet-Afghan War.Moving beyond reductive tribal tropes, Nichols examines the Pashtun borderlands as a space of active political agency and "not being governed." He reveals how local communities navigated the traumas of the 1947 Partition, resisted centralized state-building efforts, and negotiated with the forces of global capital. From the failed promises of American-funded development schemes in the 1950s to the enduring nonviolent legacy of Abdul Ghaffar Khan (Bacha Khan), this monograph illuminates the complex social and political hierarchies that shaped the periphery.In this vital contribution to global borderland studies, Nichols demonstrates that the regional instability of the late twentieth century was not an accident of geography but a consequence of specific historical failures in governance and the production of knowledge. This work is essential reading for scholars of South and Central Asian history, postcolonial state-building, and the enduring friction between central authorities and the fringes of empire.
About the Author
Robert Nichols
Robert Nichols studies early modern and modern South Asian social, economic, and agrarian history, focusing on the borderland regions of western Pakistan and eastern Afghanistan. His current work examines the 1940s–1970s period when regional communities experienced the end of the British Indian empire, nation-state building politics, and shifting global dynamics of power, trade, mobility, and self-determination.
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