Mizh: A Monograph on Government Relations with the Mahsud Tribe

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Written by the Resident in Waziristan, this monograph sets out how the government understood, and attempted to manage, its relations with the Mahsud sections. It is indispensable and partial in equal measure: the closest thing to a manual of indirect rule in this region, written entirely from the administration's side of the table.

Table of contents

1. I. The country and the people
2. II. Early relations, 1860–1894
3. III. The blockade system
4. IV. Allowances and maliki
5. V. The operations of 1919–20
6. VI. The forward policy and Razmak
7. Appendices: agreements and jirga records