Ramparts of Empire

1. Introduction
Brandon Marsh

Part I. The North-West Frontier and Post-War Imperialism

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

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

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

Part II. The North-West Frontier and the Nationalist Challenge

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

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

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

Part III. The North-West Frontier and the End of Empire

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

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

10. “A Glorified Maginot Line”?: The Frontier and the Second World War, 1939–1946
Brandon Marsh

11. Conclusion: The End of British Rule and the Frontier Legacy
Brandon Marsh

Keywords: History, History of Britain and Ireland, Asian History, History of Military, Imperialism and Colonialism, History of South Asia, Modern History