scholarly journals A Handbook for Travellers in India, Burma, and Ceylon, including the Provinces of Bengal, Bombay, Madras, the United Provinces of Agra and Lucknow, the Panjab, Eastern Bengal and Assam, the North-West Frontier Province, Baluchistan, and the Central Provinces, and the Native States of Rajputana, Central India, Kashmir, Hyderabad, Mysore, &c.

Nature ◽  
1911 ◽  
Vol 88 (2197) ◽  
pp. 171-171
Keyword(s):  
Central India ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
North West Frontier Province ◽  
United Provinces

The Rise of Deobandi Islam in the North-West Frontier Province and its Implications in Colonial India and Pakistan 1914–1996

2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
SANA HAROON
Keyword(s):  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
North India ◽  
Islamic State ◽  
Religious Leaders ◽  
North West ◽  
Colonial India ◽  
The North ◽  
Soviet Occupation ◽  
North West Frontier Province ◽  
United Provinces

The commitment of North-West Frontier Province Pakhtun religious politics towards the quest for a society and state governed by religious leaders was directed through the colonial period, and into the national period, predominantly by the ulama known as Deobandis. These ulama took their title from the madrasa Darul Ulum Deoband in the United Provinces in north-India and came to prominence through championing Muslim interests in colonial NWFP. After the partition of the Indian subcontinent and the creation of Pakistan in 1947, the United Provinces remained in India, separating Pakistani scholars trained in Deoband from Indian Deobandi theologians, and indeed from the school itself. But these ulama continued to call themselves Deobandis and were central to the successful demand for the constitutional declaration of Pakistan as an Islamic state; and brought Islam to bear on national and provincial legislation from positions in parliament. Increasingly well-organised and well-funded, NWFP Deobandi ulama established madrasas and mosques in the province, strengthening the preserve of religion and their own authority. When the Afghan resistance to the Soviet occupation began in 1978, a section of the resistance organisation working in exile in Peshawar gravitated towards these Deobandi institutions, drawing the Deobandi ulama of the NWFP into the jihad. Sustaining links to the Afghan fighters even after the withdrawal of the Soviets, the NWFP Deobandis contributed to and encouraged the emerging organisation of the Taliban, becoming champions of their reactionary brand of Islam.

Pashtun and Punjabi Taliban

Pakistan ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 131-144
Author(s):  
Mariam Abou Zahab
Keyword(s):  
North West ◽  
Competition And Cooperation ◽  
Sectarian Violence ◽  
The North ◽  
North West Frontier Province ◽  
Tribal Areas ◽  
The Impact

This chapter attempts to analyse the dynamics of the Pashtun–Punjabi nexus and the areas of competition and cooperation between Sunni sectarian groups and the Pakistani Taliban. It outlines the links between Sunni sectarian groups and the Afghan Taliban, the impact of the collapse of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan and the implications of the relocation of Punjabi jihadi/sectarian groups in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). It also focuses on the consequences of the storming of Islamabad's Lal Masjid in July 2007, and it investigates the re-emergence of sectarian groups in Karachi and in the Punjab and its implications for Pakistan. The Punjab and Karachi have been the primary hubs of sectarian violence in Pakistan since the 1980s, but in the post-9/11 environment the Sunni-Shia conflict has assumed a new dimension.

From Panjab to London

2017 ◽  
pp. 1-69
Author(s):  
Ramin Jahanbegloo ◽  
Romila Thapar ◽  
Neeladri Bhattacharya
Keyword(s):  
Family Background ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Independence Movement ◽  
North West Frontier Province ◽  
Indian Nationalism ◽  
New Nation ◽  
Jawaharlal Nehru ◽  
Radical Ideas

In this section Romila Thapar talks about her childhood and family background. Her childhood was spent in various places from the North West Frontier Province of British India to school and college in Pune, before reaching Delhi, from where she went to London. She reflects on the Indian independence movement and the development of her interests in politics. This was almost inevitable among teenagers growing up in the years just before independence and influenced by Indian nationalism. She discusses her reading at that time both of the classics and of popular novels, and describes how she gradually developed an interest in early India. Thapar also shares her experience of the much-discussed Nehruvian ideal of building a new nation and the growth of radical ideas. She describes her years in London, slowly becoming a historian. This brings her to joining Jawaharlal Nehru University and working at the Centre for Historical Studies.

Archaeology in Afghanistan

Antiquity ◽  
1947 ◽  
Vol 21 (82) ◽  
pp. 57-65
Author(s):  
R. E. M. Wheeler
Keyword(s):  
Director General ◽  
North West ◽  
Asiatic Society ◽  
The North ◽  
North West Frontier Province ◽  
The Government ◽  
Indian Mission ◽  
Royal Asiatic Society

The Government of Afghanistan recently sent two missions to India, where they were warmly welcomed and made many friends. In September 1946, the Government of India sent in return a small mission to Afghanistan to establish contact between the respective archaeological and historical activities of the two countries, with a view if possible to securing closer cultural collaboration. The Indian mission consisted of the Director General of Archaeology in India and his wife ; the Honourable Mr Justice N. G. A. Edgely, President of the Royal Asiatic Society of Bengal—the oldest learned society in Asia; and Mr M. A. Shakur, Curator of the Pesh#x0101;war Museum, sent by the Government of the North-West Frontier Province as the immediate neighbour of Afghanistan. The mission travelled in two ex-U.S.A. Army vehicles, a six-wheeled personnel-carrier and a jeep, with two Indian drivers and two Indian attendants.

Seismicity in the North-West Frontier Province at the Indian-Eurasian Plate Convergence

2009 ◽  
Vol 80 (4) ◽  
pp. 599-608 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. K. S. Thingbaijam ◽  
P. Chingtham ◽  
S. K. Nath
Keyword(s):  
Eurasian Plate ◽  
North West ◽  
Plate Convergence ◽  
The North ◽  
North West Frontier Province

An alkaline igneous province in the North-West Frontier Province, West Pakistan

1970 ◽  
Vol 107 (4) ◽  
pp. 395-398 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. R. C. Kempe ◽  
M. Qasim Jan
Keyword(s):  
Alkaline Rocks ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
North West Frontier Province ◽  
Igneous Province

SummaryAlkaline microgranites and granite, containing aegirine, riebeckite and astrophyllite, from north-west Pakistan, are briefly described, and tentatively correlated with other alkaline rocks in the region.

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