Introduction 1. The North-West Frontier: Policies, Perceptions, and the Conservative Impulse in the British Raj 2. The North-West Frontier and the Crisis of Empire, 1919-1923 3. A Cigarette in a Powder Magazine: The Frontier, Nationalism, and Reform, 1919-1930 4. 'A Considerable Degree of Supineness': Nationalism and The British Administration, 1928-1930 5. 'These Infernal Khudai Khidmatgaran': Defining and Repressing Frontier Nationalism, 1930-1932 6. 'The Forbidden Land': The British, Frontier Nationalism, and Congress, 1931-1934 7. 'If the Ramparts Fall, the City must Fall also': The Frontier and Indian Constitutional Reform, 1930-1939 8. Tribal Policy and its Discontents, 1930-1939 9. The North-West Frontier and the Second World War, 1939-1946 Conclusion: The End of British Rule and the Frontier Legacy

This cultural and political study examines British perceptions and policies on India's Afghan Frontier between 1918 and 1948 and the impact of these on the local Pashtun population, India as a whole, and the decline of British imperialism in South Asia.

Brandon Marsh is Assistant Professor of History at Bridgewater College in Bridgewater, Virginia, USA.