Table of Contents

Preface: Writing History
1: Introduction: Regional Lives Taking Global Roles
2: Integration through Subordination to Modern Empire
3: Nineteenth Century Assimilation and Resistance
4: Colonial Diaspora and Pashtun Adaptation
5: National Integration, Transnational Circulation, 1950-2000
6: Pashtuns as Global Workers, Dubai 2006
Conclusion
Appendices
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Robert Nichols is Associate Professor of History at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey. He teaches South Asian and Indian Ocean history and has worked on the regional histories of the Pashtun communities of Pakistan and Afghanistan. He also has taught history courses as a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania and Yale University.

Reviews

Nichols provides an in-depth historical, anthropological, sociological and economic overview of the importance of migration and circulation in Pashtun society... An excellent account enabling a good understanding of Pashtun migration and culture. Katie Kuschminder, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies.