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The Pathan Unarmed: Opposition and Memory in the North West Frontier (World Anthropology (Paperback SAR Press)) [Paperback]

Mukulika Banerjee (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0933452691 | ISBN-13: 978-0933452695 | Publication Date: February 2001

How were the notoriously violent Pukhtun converted to an ethic of nonviolence? The Pukhtun (Pathan) of the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan are regarded as a warrior people. Yet in the years between the world wars there arose a Muslim movement, the Khudai Khidmatgar (Servants of God) that was inspired by Gandhian principles of nonviolent action and dedicated to Indian nationalism rather than communal separatism. This book is the first account of rank-and-file members of the Khudai Khidmatgar, describing why they joined, what they did, and how they perceived the ethics and aims of the movement.

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Mukulika Banerjee is a Lecturer in Anthropology at University College, London.

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Paperback: 320 pages
Publisher: School of American Research Press (February 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0933452691
ISBN-13: 978-0933452695
Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6 x 0.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #107,146 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In the winter of 1988 an elderly Pathan, Khan Abdul Gaffar Khan, died aged 98. Read the first page

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Badshah Khan, Khudai Khidmatgar, Khan Sahib, Settled Districts, North West Frontier, Abdul Gaffar Khan, Sarfaraz Nazim, Chief Secretary's Report, Kissa Khani, Wali Khan, Haji Abdul Wadood, Mohammed Yakub Khan, Gul Rahman, Hindu Kush, North India, Sadar Musa Khan, Sarfaraz Khan, Waris Khan, Deputy Commissioner, Durand Line, Noor Akbar, Subaltern Studies, Akbar Ahmed, Faqir of Ipi, Jarnail Hazrat Gul

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This book cites 83 books:

Violence and the Sacred by Ren� Girard in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Resistance and Control in Pakistan by Akbar S. Ahmed in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Poetry and Prophecy by Nora Chadwick on page 129, and Back Matter
Jihad and Shahadat (Struggle and Martyrdom in Islam) by Ayatullah Mahmud Talegani; Ayatullah Murtada Mutahhari; Ali Shari'ati; Mehdi Abedi in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
Subaltern Studies: Writings on South Asian History and Society, Vol. 6 by Ranajit Guha on page 10, and Back Matter

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Nehru: A Political Life by Dr. Judith M. Brown in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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The Bureaucracy of Beauty: Design in the Age of its Global Reproducibility by Arindam Dutta in Back Matter
Living Islam: Muslim Religious Experience in Pakistan's North-West Frontier by Magnus Marsden in Back Matter
Gender and Empire (Oxford History of the British Empire Companion) by Philippa Levine on page 75

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