Ramparts of Empire: British Imperialism and India’s Afghan Frontier, 1918–1948

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
Introduction....Pages 1-7
Front Matter....Pages 9-9
The North-West Frontier: Policies, Perceptions, and the Conservative Impulse in the British Raj....Pages 11-35
“A Continual and Gratuitous Provocation”: The North-West Frontier and the Crisis of Empire, 1919–1923....Pages 36-58
A Cigarette in a Powder Magazine: The Frontier, Nationalism, and Reform, 1919–1930....Pages 59-81
Front Matter....Pages 83-83
“A Considerable Degree of Supineness”: Nationalism and the British Administration, 1928–1930....Pages 85-114
“These Infernal Khudai Khidmatgaran”: Defining and Repressing Frontier Nationalism, 1930–1931....Pages 115-138
“The Forbidden Land”: The British, Frontier Nationalism, and Congress, 1931–1934....Pages 139-165
Front Matter....Pages 167-167
“If the Ramparts Fall, the City Must Fall Also”: The Frontier and Indian Constitutional Reform, 1930–1939....Pages 169-193
“A Welcome Weapon of Criticism”: Tribal Policy and Its Discontents, 1930–1939....Pages 194-225
“A Glorified Maginot Line”?: The Frontier and the Second World War, 1939–1946....Pages 226-252
Conclusion: The End of British Rule and the Frontier Legacy....Pages 253-274
Back Matter....Pages 275-292