Ramparts of Empire

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The North-West Frontier: Policies, Perceptions, and the Conservative Impulse in the British Raj

Chapter 3 “A Continual and Gratuitous Provocation”: The North-West Frontier and the Crisis of Empire, 1919–1923

Chapter 4 A Cigarette in a Powder Magazine: The Frontier, Nationalism, and Reform, 1919–1930

Chapter 5 “A Considerable Degree of Supineness”: Nationalism and the British Administration, 1928–1930

Chapter 6 “These Infernal Khudai Khidmatgaran”: Defining and Repressing Frontier Nationalism, 1930–1931

Chapter 7 “The Forbidden Land”: The British, Frontier Nationalism, and Congress, 1931–1934

Chapter 8 “If the Ramparts Fall, the City Must Fall Also”: The Frontier and Indian Constitutional Reform, 1930–1939

Chapter 9 “A Welcome Weapon of Criticism”: Tribal Policy and Its Discontents, 1930–1939

Chapter 11 Conclusion: The End of British Rule and the Frontier Legacy