Rand, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9051-1979 (2017) ‘From the Black Mountain to Waziristan’: culture and combat on the North-West frontier. In: Roy, Kaushik and Rand, Gavin ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9051-1979, (eds.) Culture, Conflict and the Military in Colonial South Asia. Routledge, pp. 189-227. ISBN 978-1138206724

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Abstract

The chapter offers a cultural reading of colonial campaigning, arguing that combat on the frontier was shaped, in important ways, by a cultural exchange: strategic, tactical and logistical calculations reflected ideas and assumptions about the frontier, its population and their relationship to colonial power. By tracing the development of specific rationalities for frontier conflict through a series of deployments, the chapter reveals the intersection of colonial culture and imperial military power, confirming Nicholas Thomas’s assertion that colonial violence was always ‘mediated and enframed by structures of meaning’.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Imperial History; South Asian History; Military History
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > DS Asia U Military Science > U Military Science (General)
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences > History Research Group (HRG) Faculty of Liberal Arts & Sciences > School of Humanities & Social Sciences (HSS)
Last Modified:	13 Dec 2020 00:52
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/15925

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