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Asian Portraits : An Autobiography As Told By Fredrik Barth - Fredric Barth

Asian Portraits

An Autobiography As Told By Fredrik Barth

By: Fredric Barth (Compiled by)

Paperback | 1 January 2015 | Edition Number 2

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History has moved very swiftly in some parts of Asia, and the personal recollections of Miangul Jahanzeb, the Wali of Swat, span a breath-taking series of transformations of which he himself was partly architect, partly prominent participant or privileged spectator. When he was born in 1908 the Swat valley formed a complex but stateless society of several hundred thousand members, linked to the archaic cosmopolitanism of Inner Asia but hardly touched by centuries of external influence. Indeed, the Swat valley had never even been seen by an Englishman until 13 years before the Wali's birth. During this childhood, his father emerged as the creator and ruler of a new state in this tribal territory. For twenty years, from 1949 to 1969, Wali Sahib himself ruled this state until it was merged with Pakistan through a peaceful transfer of authority.

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