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The
Colonization of the 3rd world resulted in the
replacement of the old socio-political institutions in
the colonies and India had no exception. Being a
peripheral region like few others, the North-West
Frontier of Colonial India was granted a different
status. Haji Sahib Turangzai, one among others, tried to
revive some of the traditional institutions to resolve
the problems of the inhabitants of his area. Not
university graduate but traditionally educated Haji
Sahib started a movement which was first of its nature
among the Pukhtuns. He tried to resolve their mutual
differences on one hand and educate them on the other
which he had realized was need of the time.
Narrating the history of the Haji Sahib Turangzai
Movement, the book takes perspectives from the
immediate localities of the Pukhtun region and
elaborates the phases of success and the failure of
the movement. It attempts to evaluate the impact of
the Movement and at places compares with the
present-day resistance movements of the area.
The
book is unique due to the use of historical
information and narratives from original texts
written in regional languages, especially Pukhtu. |
Altaf
Qadir is Assistant Professor, Department of History,
University of Peshawar, where he joined as a lecturer in
2005. He is a Life Member of the Pakistan Historical
Society. Qadir served as Lecturer in history for about
three years in the Department of Higher Education
(Colleges), Government of former North-West Frontier
Province.
Qadir regularly contributes to the peer reviewed
academic journals. His area of research includes
religious reformism in Northern India and Religious
Mobilization in the Pukhtun Region. Qadir has also
authored Sayyid Ahmad Barailvi: His Movement and
Legacy from the Pukhtun Perspective.
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