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Mizh: A Monograph on Government Relations with the Mahsud Tribe
Evelyn Howell · Government of India Press, Simla, 1931
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.
Colonial Administration
Verified source178 pp · EnglishImperial Gazetteer of India: Provincial Series — North-West Frontier Province
Superintendent of Government Printing, Calcutta · Government of India, 1908
The standard geographical, administrative and historical reference prepared after the constitution of the North-West Frontier Province. It compiles district-by-district surveys, tribal lineages and economic statistics.
Census & Gazetteers
Verified source588 pp · EnglishThe Pathans: 550 B.C.–A.D. 1957
Sir Olaf Caroe · Macmillan, London, 1958
Written by the last British Governor of the North-West Frontier Province, this work traces the history of the Pashtuns from ancient Persian and Greek references down through the Delhi Sultanates, the Mughal period, and British rule.
Tribal & Regional Histories
Verified source521 pp · EnglishOperations in Waziristan 1919–1920
General Staff, Army Headquarters India · Superintendent Government Printing, Calcutta, 1921
The official staff history of the punitive campaign undertaken by the 43rd and 67th Indian Brigades against the Mahsud sections following the Third Anglo-Afghan War.
Military Operations
Verified source204 pp · EnglishCustomary Law of the Dera Ismail Khan District
H. St. George Tucker · Punjab Government Civil and Military Gazette Press, Lahore, 1879
A pioneering codification of customary laws governing the diverse tribes of the trans-Indus frontier, compiled during the regular settlement of Dera Ismail Khan.
Legal & Customary Codes
Verified source142 pp · English