Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Maps
- Introduction: “A Doughty and Honourable Opponent”: Historicizing the Afghan– Pakistan Borderlands
- 1 “Using a Crowbar to Swat Wasps”: The Frontier Tribal Area in Imperial Defense
- 2 The “Opening of Sluice- Gates”: Plan Partition and the Frontier
- 3 “We Are One People and Ours Is a Land”: The Demand for Pashtunistan, 1948–1952
- 4 A “Friendly Point of Return”: Pakistan and the Global Cold War
- 5 An “Eye for an Eye”: Mohammad Ayub Khan and the Collapse of Regional Relations
- Conclusion: “Religion, Land, Lineage and Honour”: The Afghan–Pakistan Borderlands Then and Now
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 January 2017
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- List of Abbreviations
- Maps
- Introduction: “A Doughty and Honourable Opponent”: Historicizing the Afghan– Pakistan Borderlands
- 1 “Using a Crowbar to Swat Wasps”: The Frontier Tribal Area in Imperial Defense
- 2 The “Opening of Sluice- Gates”: Plan Partition and the Frontier
- 3 “We Are One People and Ours Is a Land”: The Demand for Pashtunistan, 1948–1952
- 4 A “Friendly Point of Return”: Pakistan and the Global Cold War
- 5 An “Eye for an Eye”: Mohammad Ayub Khan and the Collapse of Regional Relations
- Conclusion: “Religion, Land, Lineage and Honour”: The Afghan–Pakistan Borderlands Then and Now
- Index
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- The Defiant BorderThe Afghan-Pakistan Borderlands in the Era of Decolonization, 1936–65, pp. 255 - 259Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2016