| ID | 163815 |
| Title Proper | Frontier Crimes Regulation in Colonial India: Local Critiques and Persistent Effects |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Pant, Saurabh |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | In their pursuit of self-serving goals, sometimes governments create and use various instruments as the means to relatively short-term ends. Such instruments, however, can be tenacious, and have perverse, long-lasting impacts. This paper focuses on one such instrument created during the British Raj: the Frontier Crimes Regulation. Often, the literature on the Regulation focuses on the rationale for its creation from the perspective of the colonisers and refers to the long-term consequences in hindsight, thereby ignoring local voices. However, I show that in 1901, at the time of the drafting of the Regulation, the local colonised population foresaw the potentially lasting pernicious effects stemming from it and voiced their concerns. I demonstrate that these local voices can help us understand the roots of the problems in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan today. |
| `In' analytical Note | South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies Vol. 41, No.4; Dec 2018: p.789-805 |
| Journal Source | South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 2018-12 41, 4 |
| Key Words | Institutions ; Pakistan ; FATA ; Colonial India ; British Raj ; Jirga ; Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR) |