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Pashtunwali and Islam

Tilak Devasher's deep study of this ethnic group explains how it negotiates its identity and religiosity in a deeply contested geography

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The Pashtuns: A Contested History

Chintan Girish Modi
Title of the book: The Pashtuns: A Contested History
Author: Tilak Devasher
Publisher: HarperCollins India
Number of Pages: 496
Price: Rs 799

Tilak Devasher, who retired as Special Secretary in the Cabinet Secretariat of the Government of India in 2014, and currently serves as a member of India’s National Security Advisory Board, has been writing extensively about Pakistan in the past few years. After Pakistan: Courting the Abyss (2016), Pakistan: At the Helm (2018), and Pakistan: The Balochistan Conundrum (2019), his latest book is The Pashtuns: A Contested History (2022).

The menacing cover by artist Saurav Das attempts to evoke many of the significant themes –
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