Beyond Swat : history, society and economy along the Afghanistan-Pakistan frontier / Benjamin D. Hopkins and Magnus Marsden, editors.

"The origin of this volume lay in a conference ... organized in the summer of 2010, entitled "Rethinking the Swat Pathan".

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Rethinking Swat: militancy and modernity along the Afghanistan-Pakistan frontier / Benjamin D. Hopkins and Magnus Marsden -- Swat in retrospect / Charles Lindholm -- The Abadli Afghans between Multan, Qandahar and Herat in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Christine Noelle-Karimi -- A history of the "Hindustani fanatics" on the frontier / Benjamin D. Hopkins -- Kashars against Mashars : jihad and social change in the FATA / Mariam Abou Zahab -- A history of linguistic boundary crossing within and around Pashto / Shah Mahmoud Hanifi -- The road to Kabul: automobiles and Afghan internationalismm 1900-40 / Nile Green -- Being a diplomat on the frontier of south and central Asia: trade and traders in Afghanistan / Magnus Marsden -- Class, patronage and coercion in the Pakistani Punjab and in Swat / Nicolas Emilio Martin -- Exceptional Pashtuns?: Class politics, imperialism and historiography / Nancy Lindsfarne -- Class, state and power in Swat conflict / Robert Nichols -- The Swat crisis / Sultan-i-Rome -- Producing civil society, ignoring Rivaj: international donors, the state and development / Urs Geiser -- Public visibility of women and the rise of the neo-Taliban movement in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 2007-09 / Sana Haroon -- Custom and conflict in Waziristan: some British views / Hugh Beattie -- Studying Pashtuns in Barth's shadow / Richard Rapper -- If only there were leaders: the problem of "fixing" the Pashtun tribes / Antonio Giustozzi -- Lessons on governance from the Wali of Swat: state-building in Afghanistan, 1995-2010.